Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly every corn field in Delaware, and severity and incidence varies from year to year. Stalk rots can cause breakage and lodging of stalks and plant death. In many ...

Although field corn kernels start out soft like sweet corn, this variety is left to dry on the stalks in the field before harvesting in the fall once much of its sugar content has converted into ...

According to the latest survey from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, a division of the USDA, South Dakota ...

When that corn crop comes up this spring, you want it to be green and stay green. One potential issue: if you’re using urea ...

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

“While the stalk integrity of the short-stature corn ... but he would be concerned about combining the corn on fields with much of a slope. “With how close you’re running that header to ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...

The Gazette will host a series of free, virtual talks about the future of agriculture this week, including advances in drone ...

Therefore, anthracnose is more severe where corn follows corn and infected residues are left on the soil surface. Anthracnose stalk rot has been recorded in fields where no debris was left on the ...