The weather conditions of 2025 were perfect for a southern rust outbreak across the Midwest, resulting in many growers having to make late-season decisions on disease management. Southern rust is a ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Southern rust appears on a corn plant’s leaf. The disease has popped up throughout Iowa through a ...
Agronomist Ryan Gentle shares scouting tips and spray timing strategies to control tar spot, southern rust and other corn ...
OTTUMWA — In Derrick Hoodjer's belief, the farmers did it right. Some planted corn early, some others on their own timetable. All were hopeful. "The biggest thing is, and it's just my opinion a little ...
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Iowa farmers battle Southern Rust, Tar Spot epidemic
DES MOINES, Iowa — According to experts, over 60 Iowa counties’ corn fields are infected with the Southern Rust fungus. Farmers are busy working hard to combat the spreading disease. Matt Chambers, a ...
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 ...
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