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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

Corn across Iowa is looking the best it has in the past four years. Iowa state extension cropping system specialist Mark ...

A Michigan farmer near the Ohio border soybean harvest is just starting in his area. Scott Welden tells Brownfield the last ...

Tar spot produces raised, black fungal structures on leaves, stem, and husk of affected corn plants. These spots can be surrounded by a narrow tan halo. The spots will not rub of when you touch them.

Glacier FarmMedia —Experts and agronomists offered reflections on Ontario’s 2024 growing season and predictions for 2025 at ...

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.

But it's not just southern rust threatening Wisconsin’s cornfields; another fungus, tar spot, originally a tropical disease, ...