In 2024, over 165 million bushels of corn were impacted by stalk rot diseases. Learn how to identify different corn stalk rots to dial in your management plan.

Given the corn price outlook, this is not the year to ignore any “sometimes a problem” pest like corn stalk borer -- especially if you’ve encountered it in corn before. It has a tendency to ...

Officials are monitoring the spread of a disease that is hurting corn production in Kansas. The Kansas State Research and ...

Initial symptoms of stalk rots are noticed by premature wilting and ear drop (Figure 1). As the disease progresses stalks senesce rapidly and turn brown to gray. Figure 1. Symptoms of stalk rots in ...

But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green giants that have dominated fields for so long.

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

The thunderstorm that spawned the monster EF-3 tornado that walloped Pampa, Tex. Monday night lofted a corn stalk thousands of feet into the air where it was transformed into the nucleus or core ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) By The Associated Press ...

Not only are Iowans sweating in this heat, but the corn stalks are too. Iowa has seen temperatures in the 90s with heat indices of over 100 degrees — and corn sweat is contributing to the humidity.

A single stalk of corn is growing in front of a home — in the concrete — at the 5700 block of W. Silver Valley Drive near Dunham Park in western Sioux Falls.

A robot for measuring the angles of corn stalk leaves may sound like a ridiculously niche invention, but it’s a device with potentially major benefits for farmers. As detailed in a paper ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds an ear of corn from a short corn stalk in his field, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall | AP) The short corn ...