Total Precipitation August 16-22, 2018
Total Precipitation August 16-22, 2018
Southern rust of corn was officially confirmed this week in both Knox and Jackson counties Indiana.
He is studying the dynamics of plant disease and epidemiology of crop diseases and in particular grey leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight in corn. His lab is looking to establish a collection of isolates of these two diseases from across the state for epidemiological work that could be the basis for developing strategies to manage GLS in the future.
Corn earworm moth numbers have been relatively low this season until recently, as numbers have exploded in pheromone traps.
For reasons that are unclear – but likely related to two seasons of increased monitoring and spraying – the western bean cutworm damage is far lower than the past two seasons.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean August 8-14, 201
Total Precipitation August 9-15, 2018
We are collecting corn tar spot samples and we need your help! Tar spot of corn is a new corn disease first identified in the United States in 2015 in Illinois and Indiana. It has since been confirmed in Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Florida.
Fancy colored yield maps are fine for verifying grain yields at the end of the harvest season, but bragging rights for the highest corn yields are established earlier than that down at the Main Street Cafe, on the corner of 5th and Earl.
Physoderma brown spot is caused by Physoderma maydis, the only class of fungi that produce zoospores, spores that have a tail (flagellum), and swim free in water.
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