Planning ahead to make sure treatment products are available. Bauer offers further material on corn diseases, including everything from tar spot to leaf blight on her site, B&M Crop Consulting.

“But in the end, tar spot did not infect the susceptible hybrid.” With no big rains to splash the inoculant up onto the corn plants, it didn’t reach a threshold level. “The conditions ...

Tar spot was discovered at a Purdue irrigation research plot and ... The plot was flown mid-October to observe disease impact. Plants not under the pivot irrigation system were decimated while the ...

Researchers at the University of Minnesota reached a breakthrough in research on the corn tar spot pathogen, a disease that threatens corn production. The researchers recently developed and reported ...

A field agronomist with Burrus Seed says tar spot is on many corn farmers minds heading into 2025. Dana Harder, who’s based ...

If this threw you for a loop, well, fret not. Those patches are called maple tar spots, and they are nothing to fear. Read more: Plants You Shouldn't Grow Right Next To Your House Maple tar spots ...

Tar spot was found in all 92 Indiana counties in 2024. In Southern Indiana, it moved in early and aggressively. “And I think that caught a lot of people off guard,” says Madison Wozniak, Technical Ser ...

Mariela Fernández-Campos, a graduate student in Purdue University’s Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, examines leaves for tar spot in a field at Pinney Purdue Agricultural Center.