As Tar Spot Spreads Across the Corn Belt, Crop Nutrition Becomes a Key Management Tool

Retailers weigh in on the 2025 growing season, revealing strong support for corn, optimism for Smart Tech, and a few unexpected plot twists along the way.

Learn the best timing for corn fungicide applications and how digital tools can help maximize yield and boost farm efficiency.

New fungicide will help shield crops with overlapping preventive and curative activity while controlling multiple foliar fungal diseases like tar spot.

When tar spot strikes late in the season, a Wisconsin grower’s surprising success shows just how effective and precise aerial fungicide application can be.

Staying ahead of crop insects and diseases can be the difference between a good and great season.

New EPA 25(b) biopesticide combines essential oils and nano-emulsion technology for safer, more effective pest and disease control across all farm sizes.

Here’s a breakdown of what is and is not effective when it comes to controlling tar spot.

Michigan State University PhD student Stephen Stresow-Cortez ties research he conducted on onion rot to Star Wars in this entertaining piece.

The ROAR grant will provide producers with the tools they need to quickly address this pathogen.

New synthetic and biological solutions offer hope against the perennial war against pests.

Industry leaders continue to introduce next generation weed management solutions focusing on efficacy, environmental sustainability, and resistance management.

ROI calculators provide growers with trial information and other local data points to make informed decisions about fungicide applications.

The new products will expand Loveland’s Phytalix-based offerings providing additional value-added products for US row crop growers.

Fungicide demand for row crops has been stronger in recent years due in part to environmental conditions that have helped plant diseases proliferate.

Continued to work closely with European and U.S. regulators on the regulatory review of its first candidate biofungicide EVOCA.

Nontoxic disease control solution outperforms existing products and increases yields by up to 2 tons per hectare.

Farmers and retailers can test Veltyma, Revytek, and Revylok fungicides in their own fields, and compare results to their current approach.

BioFun-6 is the company’s second biocontrol program against Botrytis and powdery mildew in fruits and vegetables.