UW testing smart phone app to predict corn tar spot

Dr. Damon Smith answering questions during 2019 Wisconsin Agribusiness Classic.

A University of Wisconsin plant pathologist says they are testing a smartphone application to help corn growers predict and manage tar spot.
Dr. Damon Smith tells Brownfield, “We do have a preliminary model now. We’ll be testing that and validating it across the upper midwest here in 2019.”

Smith says he was pretty lucky because the Sporecaster framework they built to predict white mold in soybeans was exactly what they needed to help predict and manage tar spot.

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