An agronomist says there have been a pair of weather-related diseases starting to emerge in areas of the Western Corn Belt.
Trey Stephens with Becks covers Southeast Nebraska. “This year it’s bacterial leaf streaks. It’s not a fungus, but a bacteria. We got sporadic hail events, and if you get a rain after that hail it splashes up that bacteria and then infiltrates the corn crop.”
He tells Brownfield physoderma brown spot has been spotted, but it will not impact yield.
Weather-dependent diseases popping up in WCB
