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.
