University Research on Corn Diseases

See these links for university research reports and field crop scouting manuals.

The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Farm Journal. It corresponds with the article “Eight Ways to Beat Disease” by Darrell Smith. You can find the article on page 18 in the Late Spring 2010 issue.


For photos and information about corn diseases, visit this University of Illinois Web site: http://cropdisease.cropsci.illinois.edu/corn/index.html

For Purdue University’s corn disease publication, go here: http://www.btny.purdue.edu/Extension/pathology/cropdiseases/Corn/corn1.html

To order a University of Illinois field crop scouting manual, visit https://pubsplus.uiuc.edu/X880e.html

The University of Minnesota’s “Field Guide to Corn Diseases” can be found here: http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC8324.html

To keep up on Carl Bradley’s disease observations, visit the site of the University of Illinois IPM bulletin: http://ipm.illinois.edu/bulletin.

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