Corn diseases caused an estimated $13.8 billion in losses and cut yields by 2.5 billion bushels across North America from ...

Addressing corn disease pressure in-season is rarely a matter of “if” and more likely “when.” Coming off heavy disease pressure from 2025, now is the time to put your plan together for how you’ll ...

Corn is an important part of our daily lives; it literally fuels us, as a food and when turned into ethanol. The grain is essential to Indiana’s economy, ranking fifth in production. Ahead of ...

Yes, we have found active tar spot in Indiana. Early planted corn in Indiana is reaching mid- to late-vegetative stages and some tasseling in the south. Therefore, it is time to start monitoring for ...

Tar spot (top right) and southern rust (bottom photos) were hit-and-miss around the Corn Belt in 2025. That made scouting every field especially important. Both diseases often started low and worked ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Soon, growers in southeast Minnesota of corn and soybeans will find out if crops held off the disease pressure this year to deliver some high-end yields. Ryan Miller, University of ...

The collaboration is supported by grants from the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and an Innovation Voucher from the state of Indiana. Jin’s team also will develop algorithms that pick up the color ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KCTV) - Researchers in Missouri are hoping to save one of the state’s biggest crops, but the solution won’t come in time to help this year, as a pest from out-of-state attacks ...

WATERTOWN, S.D. — Across most of South Dakota, corn diseases have been worse than normal this year. Madalyn Shires, assistant professor and SDSU Extension plant pathology specialist, hosted a field ...

MISSOURI, USA — Two newly found incurable diseases in Missouri could cause massive agricultural and economic issues throughout the state. Soybeans and corn are Missouri's two biggest cash crops, ...

The hot, dry growing conditions that frustrated many corn farmers for the last two years may have had at least one positive effect: A corn disease that reached peak levels in 2011 largely spared many ...