Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) is a disease of corn caused by the fungus, Exserohilum turcicum. Severe outbreaks of the disease can cause up to 30-50% yield loss in dent corn if the disease is ...

The end of harvest doesn’t necessarily mean the end of corn disease management. Disease-causing pathogens can persist in infected corn residue, making field history and residue conditions useful ...

Nobody really knows how the fungus Bipolaris maydis got into the cornfields of the United States. But by summer of 1970, it was there with a vengeance, inflicting a disease called southern corn leaf ...

Mariah Squire is a Digital News Senior Editor for Successful Farming and Agriculture.com. Before joining Successful Farming full-time in 2024, she was a contributor covering the weekly USDA Crop ...

Corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion from 2020 to 2023, according to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada. The ...

Foliar diseases, such as gray leaf spot, northern corn leaf blight, and southern rust, were estimated to cause annual losses ranging from 19,029 to 244,149 metric tons from 2012 to 2015 in Kentucky.

In a changing climate, corn growers must be ready for anything, including new and shifting disease dynamics. Because it's impossible to predict which damaging disease will pop up in a given year, corn ...

In the world of corn diseases, some get the bulk of farmer attention and most of the press coverage because of their dramatic impact on corn. Think tar spot. Creating significant yield loss but less ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (DTN) -- Nathan Kleczewski wants all the dirty corn leaves you can send him. It's peak season for the University of Illinois Extension plant pathologist, who has been tromping through ...