Glenn Carter of Armstrong County knew something was wrong. He turned to Texas A&M AgriLife Extnesion Service to diagnose the corn disease.

The Isbell’s are a 6th generation farm family that has been providing 15 acres of free sweet corn to the public for nearly 20 years. Neal Isbell runs the farm with his son Shane and his grandson Tyler ...

To avoid these problems, you should conduct soil testing and control nitrogen levels in your corn fields. A key sign of nitrogen deficiency is a plant with pale, yellowish leaves and spindly stalks.

In one field, he harvested some corn from diseased plants and healthy plants by hand. “We had a 66% reduction in yield on the diseased plants versus what looked like healthy plants,” Kerns said.