In the July 18, 2011 crop minute, Alison Robertson, ISU Extension plant pathologist, tells producers to begin scouting corn as tasseling and silking starts. She says to target scouting to fields with leaf diseases, low-laying fields and to fields planted with hybrids having a greater susceptibility to leaf diseases. She also gives advice on when to make fungicide applications.
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- Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
- Extension Field Crops Pathologist