Crop Production Extension agent in the Cottonwood District (which includes Barton and Ellis counties) for K-St ...

Last year’s growing season brought to Kansas a new disease to corn. Corn stunt spiroplasma and its associated vector the corn leafhopper insect. It was confirmed in 26 counties in 2024.

In 2024, Oklahoma confirmed its first reports of corn leafhoppers (Dalbulus maidis) and corn stunt disease. The corn leafhopper and the disease symptoms were reported throughout the country last year.

A world-first DNA test developed for use directly on sugarcane farms is being hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against ratoon stunting disease, a hidden threat capable of slashing crop ...

Buenos Aires | Reuters—Argentina’s corn harvest, already cut sharply due a stunt disease spread by leafhopper insects, was “likely” to be slashed significantly further, a Rosario grains exchange ...

The prevalence of stunting was 7.9% in the sample pool ... Children with skeletal deformities, genetic diseases like achondroplasia, growth hormone deficiency, and familial short stature were excluded ...

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Good weather had assisted the corn crop in Argentina, said Cordonnier, although he cautioned that corn stunt disease was impacting yields there. “Everybody’s expecting the later planted corn in ...