Have you experienced milder temperatures this summer? High humidity? Frequent rainfall? These factors may add up to prime conditions for Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) to make an appearance, ...

It’s been a rocky start to the 2024 growing season for many corn growers, with some parts of the Corn Belt enduring persistent rainfall, wind and hail. Those weather factors, along with rising ...

At this time of the year, crops are still growing and corn cobs are filling but farmers are still at work checking out their fields to figure out what to do next year. In Central Iowa, Iowa State ...

Corn growth stages are quite variable across Indiana but a number of areas have moved into tasseling or beyond. Therefore, it is time to continue to monitoring for diseases to make an informed ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri Extension specialists are urging growers to scout for corn leafhopper. It was first confirmed in southwestern Missouri in Christian County in 2024 and in ...

Crop consultants say farmers should match insect traits to field risk levels when lenders demand lower seed costs.

Corn and soybean farmers should be scouting for a new weed this upcoming growing season. Asian copperleaf (Acalypha australis ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Recent storms from the Gulf of Mexico have brought not only rains, but also corn earworm moths, said a Purdue University expert, and sweet corn growers need to be vigilant ...

Today, with Ashley Dean and Angie Rieck-Hinz, I met Warren Pierson at FEEL to look for corn rootworm larvae. I predicted peak corn rootworm egg hatch for central Iowa this week based on accumulating ...