The speed with which tar spot can take over and decimate a corn crop is hard to grasp unless you’ve seen the devastation happen first hand. Vince Davis, an agronomic solutions area manager for BASF, ...

Before planting even starts, the inoculums for in-season diseases are likely already on residue covering the soil. That includes the fungus tar spot. Showing up as black speckled dots on plant leaves, ...

There are two major issues this fall: tar spot affecting the stalks on corn stalks, and the moving of herbicide resistant weed seeds from one field to the next. It has become painfully obvious that ...

LAFAYETTE COUNTY (WKOW) -- As the last few bushels of corn are harvested for the season, farmer and agronomist Pat Herbst watches, once again, in disbelief. It's the fifth year in a row that a new ...

Agricultural Research Service scientists are leaving no stone—or rather, leaf—unturned in their search for new ways to counter the fungus that causes tar spot, a yield-robbing disease of field corn in ...

VIOLA, Ill. — Despite an overall increase in corn yields this year, farmers across the Midwest are facing a serious problem: a fungal disease called tar spot, fueled by a summer of wet, humid weather.

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 ...

Most farmers had a good corn harvest but corn tar spot (Phyllachora maydis) was an issue. Tar spot is a corn disease that came from Central America and seems to be spreading by wind into corn growing ...

Reports of early corn harvest in Whitley County, and in surrounding counties, are troubling. As farmers entered fields expecting corn yields to be one of their best in recent years, they were ...