New plant diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent, requiring growers to adopt more proactive management strategies.

Research from the Crop Protection Network has found that Cercospora leaf blight was the number one soybean yield robbing disease in 2024. BASF’s technical marketing manager Albre Brown says the ...

As planting season continues and the 2025 crop season gets fully underway, it’s important for farmers to be aware of the diseases that can impact their crops and […] ...

We also get some horticultural samples, usually fungal and bacterial leaf spot and leaf blotch type diseases.” Each year, the South Dakota State University Plant Diagnostic Clinic sees between ...

Applying a nitrogen-fixing endophyte bacterial spray in potatoes can boost leaf chlorophyll content, tuber numbers and tuber yields, replicated trial plots in Yorkshire have shown.

By PHYLLIS COULTER FarmWeek Tomatoes are growing in popularity as a crop in Illinois. “It’s becoming a tomato state,” said ...