Corn fungicide strategy evolves as disease spectrum shifts

An extension plant pathologist sees a shift in the corn disease spectrum. Daren Mueller with Iowa State University says when fungicide use started to become common, the main pathogens were northern corn leaf blight and gray leaf spot. “And those are diseases that survive in the residue and they sort of hit that lower canopy […]

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