The causal agent of Bacterial Stripe disease was confirmed in Champaign County. Although the disease is not new to the U.S., there’s little information on impact to corn yields.
Source: By Carl Bradley, Integrated Pest Management at the University of Illinois
Goss’s wilt of corn often is most severe after fields are exposed to high winds and/or hail damage, because the causal bacterium, Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. nebraskensis, readily infects corn leaves through wounds.
Growers are urged to keep a watchful eye on Goss's wilt this year, especially if they experienced light to heavy infections in 2011, say experts at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business.
Source: By Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois
As the dry weather continues and the Illinois corn crop rating continues to slip, we've received reports of loss of lower leaves with what seem to be different symptoms than we usually see under dry conditions.
Fields across Illinois are seeing corn plants dying early due to a severe outbreak of Goss's bacterial wilt, and cases have also been confirmed in areas of Iowa, southern Minnesota and Nebraska.
Iowa State plant pathologists have confirmed that they found Goss's Wilt on June 24 in a Carroll County cornfield where they have a research study on Goss’s wilt of corn.
Nebraska no-tiller Kurt Torell readily volunteers that he didn’t like school. After graduating from high school in 1978, he began farming with his family.
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