ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue, Minnesota, was able to enjoy a relatively average year of ...
In 2024 alone, over 165 million bushels were impacted by corn stalk rot diseases in the U.S.1 Stalk rots in corn can be tricky to manage and prevent, but the first step comes down to proper ...
Several different fungi cause stalk rot in corn across the U.S. Corn Belt, and gibberella stalk rot is among the most common forms. Stalk rot depresses yields some 5% each year, and it’s not unheard ...
As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...
Iowa crop yields have been surprisingly robust despite drought conditions that persisted throughout the growing season in Iowa, but they came at the expense of stalk stability, according to several ...
Cameron Sorgenfrey walks among short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Buy Photo WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in ...