Unlike most leaf diseases, tar spot starts impacting the crop at the bottom of plants. That means fungicides you apply must ...

Farmers and aerial applicators tell Randy Dowdy and David Hula some of the key considerations are application timing, droplet ...

Last March at the Conservation Tillage and Technology Conference in Ada, Morgan Goodnight, a Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr.

Tar spot has been detected again in the state, with the first confirmed report of 2025 occurring June 11 in northeast Kansas.

Fungicide applications and crop rotation can also limit tar spot’s impact, according to Gale. He ranks fungicide as the second most important management tool.

ST. LOUIS — Four confirmed cases of tar spots have been spotted on corn this year in Missouri. Phyllachora maydis, a fungus, is the cause. The fungal disease appears on crops as tiny, black, and ...

It’s estimated that tar spot, a fungal disease affecting corn, caused farmers to lose around $3 billion in the United States from 2018 to 2021. Skip to content. WJHL | Tri-Cities News & Weather.

Officials are monitoring the spread of a disease that is hurting corn production in Kansas. The Kansas State Research and ...

Herbst has been farming corn for more than 40 years and currently works as the Certified Crop Advisor for Insight FS in Darlington. In his four decades of work, he's never seen a disease ravage a crop ...

Heat has dominated the Indiana Farm Forecast for quite some time now. Some crops are handling the heat well while others are not. The good news is that disease pressure has been low to start the ...

The cool, wet weather of June in north central Wisconsin has caused crop development to be a bit behind schedule.

Tar spot, a nickname for a fungal disease affecting corn, ... Missouri. Infectious crop disease ‘tar spot’ spotted early in Missouri by: Nick Gladney. Posted: Jun 20, 2024 / 02:28 PM CDT.