Farmers across the Midwest have a powerful, updated tool to help with crop planning this season. The third annual Predictive Ag Report, released today by EarthOptics, a leader in soil analysis and ...

He tells Brownfield managing tar spot has become an annual occurrence as it continues to spread across the Corn Belt. “You can definitely have some overwintering of diseases like tar spot, gray leaf, ...

Ltd., National Engineering Laboratory for Site Remediation Technologies, Beijing, China. This study investigated the effect of phosphorus chemical solid wastes (phosphogypsum and phosphorus tailings) ...

For the past four years, University of Missouri researchers have been changing the color of corn to see whether purple breeds can provide potential health benefits. Working with a dark purple ...

Farmers in the northern Plains are leaning in on crops that look to offer the best chance at profitability in 2025. Among those crops that look to gain the most acres are corn, sugarbeets and ...

Disease resistance; Colletotrichum graminicola; composite interval mapping; Zea mays; AUDPC Studies aiming to know the nature and magnitude of the effects of resistance genes are important to guide ...

As a farmer, there are numerous strategies you can implement independently to boost productivity in the short term.

These inbred lines have potential resistance sources to various foliar diseases, including GLS. The information on the pedigree and other ... predictions assessed by fivefold cross-validation within ...

maydis leaf bight is a severe fungal leaf disease affecting maize and other crops, such as sorghum and teosinte, globally. Severe attacks of MLB can reduce crop yields by up to 40% (Malik et al., 2018 ...

Dr. Darcy Telenko (at far right), associate professor of plant pathology and Extension specialist at Purdue University, with young students at a research plot for corn and soybeans. Photo courtesy of ...

Prompt detection and management are essential to mitigate the impact of fungal diseases. Tar spot, northern corn leaf blight and gray leaf spot are some examples of prevalent fungal diseases ...