Nothing is a guarantee when you’re dealing with Mother Nature. But this season, a payoff from fungicide use is close to being a sure thing, says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist. “With the ...

Agronomist Ryan Gentle shares scouting tips and spray timing strategies to control tar spot, southern rust and other corn ...

CLARION, Iowa — Farmers sprayed nearly three million acres of corn with fungicides last year, but as far as Iowa State University researchers are concerned the jury is still out on whether spraying ...

If your soybeans are flowering in cool, wet July weather, White mold could be your biggest threat this season. While fungicides are often the go-to method for controlling White mold, there’s only a ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Moderate levels of some wheat leaf diseases are developing in South Dakota due to the rains the state has received this spring. "The most notable diseases are powdery mildew, stripe ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Now is the time of year when corn growers need to decide if a fungicide should be applied, and a Purdue University expert has a few guidelines to help in the decision-making ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When warm conditions, high humidity and high moisture arrive, a perfect storm may be brewing for Fusarium head blight, or scab, to develop and infect cereal crops.

The use of fungicides to treat plant pathogens dates back 150 years, when a mixture of lime and copper sulfate, known as the “Bordeaux mixture,” was used to control fungal diseases in French vineyards ...

Vol. 93, Supplement 1: PATHOLUX: FIRST LUXEMBOURGIAN CONFERENCE ON THE IMPACT OF PLANT PATHOGENS ON FOOD QUALITY OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS AND WINE (March 2011), pp. S15-S18 (4 pages) Re-emergence of ...

Illinois law requires farmers and chemical applicators to renew their pesticide application licenses every three years.

Dollar spot (Sclerotinia homoeocarpa) is a common and persistent disease of bentgrass fairways. Fairway turf typically comprises 30 to 40 acres on golf courses. Fungicide applications to control ...

The Ministry of Agriculture amended The Pest Control Products Regulations, 2015, to modernize pesticide application practices ...