“Homegrown tar spot will be the easiest to find below the ear right now. Later, when the disease is windblown around like a morning fog, you’ll find it high on the corn plant,” he says.

According to experts, over 60 Iowa counties’ corn fields are infected with the Southern Rust fungus. Farmers are busy working ...

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“Tar spot had not been detected in the U.S. prior to 2015, but it has been endemic in several Latin American countries, starting in Mexico in 1904,” said C.D. Cruz, associate professor of botany and ...

For more than a century, tar spot fungal disease in corn kept its distance from the U.S., biding its time. “Tar spot had not been detected in the U.S. prior to 2015, but it has been endemic ...

“I wanted to do this research because I wanted to understand the stuff that I knew when I was a child,” Solórzano said. Tar spot has been a major plant disease in several Latin American countries ...

Phyllachora maydis, also known as “tar spot,” first appeared in Indiana and Illinois in 2015, according to plant pathologists at Purdue University. Since then, it has spread to surrounding states.

Tar spot can be identified visually, but a laboratory diagnosis is required to distinguish it from other pathogens. Contact the Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory to submit a sample. Find ...

It’s estimated that tar spot, a fungal disease affecting corn, caused farmers to lose around $3 billion in the United States from 2018 to 2021.

It’s estimated that tar spot, a fungal disease affecting corn, caused farmers to lose around $3 billion in the United States from 2018 to 2021.

It’s estimated that tar spot, a fungal disease affecting corn, caused farmers to lose around $3 billion in the United States from 2018 to 2021.