Telenko digs into multiple corn diseases, and while the first sign of tar spot was reported around August 15 in Indiana this year, the yield hit that some growers saw in 2021 is something that ...

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 ...

Tar spot is a fungal disease that affects corn. Travis Faske, a University of Arkansas Plant Pathology Professor, says the pathogen is relatively new to the United States. He said it has a long ...

An agronomist with Golden Harvest says management of tar spot is on farmers minds as they plan for 2025. Nate Prater, who ...

Since tar spot was first found in the United States in 2015, it has continued its expansion into the upper Midwest. This year, it has been found in corn fields in 44 counties across South Dakota.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota reached a breakthrough in research on the corn tar spot pathogen, a disease that threatens corn production. The researchers recently developed and reported ...

ARVA – Tar spot can be a big black hole for potential corn yields, in the neighbourhood of 60 bushels per acre. In 2023 tar spot cost Ontario farmers 3.9 million bushels of corn. The airborne ...

Tar spot symptoms (left panel) - Aerial view of infected tar spot field (top left). Close up of infected leaf (top right). Tar spot lesions (bottom left). Sporulating lesion (bottom right).

Some farmers are rapidly approaching the finish line while others are already taking their victory lap on this year’s harvest ...

As of Sept. 26, South Dakota State University Extension has confirmed the presence of tar spot in 25 counties across the eastern half of South Dakota, according to Madalyn Shires, assistant ...

Indiana’s statewide 77 percent complete corn harvest and 87 percent complete soybean harvest are also about the rate of progress in the Fort Wayne area. “You get to my southern area and everybody’s ...