Northern corn leaf blight causes 64 million bushels of yield loss annually. Learn how to identify symptoms and protect your ...
"Corn smut" is the most common, reframing the fungus as spoiled corn rather than as an ingredient in its own right. An American name that gets the point across even more bluntly is "devil's corn," ...
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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.
High levels of fungal disease are threatening corn crops across Iowa and the rest of the Midwest. The main diseases, southern rust and tar spot, arrived earlier and spread due to wet conditions. These ...