A separate report from K-State’s Agronomy eUpdate on June 6 stated Kansas is the first state where tar spot is being found in 2024. The disease lead to severe corn crop losses in the counties ...

Screenshots of the Tarspotter app show it on a smartphone. Tar spot attacks corn-leaf blades. Tar spot, a disease of corn plants caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, has been causing problems ...

The unusually warm weather, the advancement of tar spot, and pests have choppers rolling earlier than expected in central ...

But it's not just southern rust threatening Wisconsin’s cornfields; another fungus, tar spot, originally a tropical disease, has been affecting the state’s corn crops since 2016. Both southern rust ...

In southern Indiana, he is seeing many fields of corn at R5 that are fighting tar spot, which is particularly concerning because of how quickly the disease can take down a corn crop.

The graphic below shows total GDUs for the season. Michigan corn farmers are now worried about a fairly new leaf disease called tar spot. When a corn plant gets infected with tar spot it looks ...

An Illinois agronomist says late disease is impacting the corn crop. David Kleinschmidt, owner of Progressive Agronomy ...

As Indiana’s farmers get set for harvest in the coming weeks, one concern may come from Tar Spot—which has now reached all ...

By DANIEL GRANT FarmWeek After an unseasonably cool start to the grain fill period, a blast of hot air the final week of ...

Scouting a field can be very valuable in helping identify a problem early and allow for treatment to occur. One disease to be on the lookout for this year is ...

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Tar spot, a disease of corn plants caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, has been causing problems in Mexico since the 1910s, but it stayed out of northern climes for more than a century.