Tar spot’s impact hinges on the timing of rain – that was one of AgriGold Agronomist Kevin Gale’s main takeaways this season.

“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.

"I thought it was gray leaf spot, another disease," Herbst said. "But it just killed it — dead." Herbst has been farming corn for more than 40 years and currently works as the Certified Crop Advisor ...

Tar spot decimated many central Illinois cornfields in 2021. But the disease was nearly a no-show in those same fields this past year. One farmer recently asked Ken Ferrie, “What kind of risk do ...

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.

Tar spot continues to be found in Indiana and our first confirmation of southern corn rust happened this week. I suggest if you have not gotten out and looked for these diseases now is the time. Even ...