Washington Governor Christine Gregoire wants the Department of Agriculture to declare 29 counties as farm disaster areas as heavy spring rains have hit wheat farmers hard. The rain has affected up to ...

The weather conditions of 2025 were perfect for a southern rust outbreak across the Midwest, resulting in many growers having to make late-season decisions on disease management. Southern rust is a ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections. When Dave Hodson walked through wheat ...

Southern rust is becoming more and more common in the Corn Belt. Scouting for this disease can help you make the best-informed application decisions. A “wait-and-see” strategy will work for a lot of ...

WORKERS WHO WILL BE PAID. NEW TONIGHT SOME FARMERS ARE SEEING LOSSES ON THEIR CORN CROP THIS SEASON. KCCI PEPPER TALKED WITH THE WOMAN TRACKING THE CROP DISEASE THAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM. SHE SAYS ...

Timely scouting of soybean rust symptoms is a core component of successful management. Crops can suffer increasingly severe yield reduction the longer the fungus goes untreated. You can track the ...

Support from Northarvest Bean Growers Association and U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants has allowed researchers at North Dakota State University to look at ways to manage ...

Winter wheat growers face a heightened challenge of controlling septoria and yellow rust in their crops this season, with both diseases clearly visible in early spring. Farmers Weekly visited North ...

Winter crops on light land and spring crops are suffering in the dry conditions. In the East, one agronomist described sugar beet as having a “torrid time” with some fields still to emerge as seeds ...