Tracking Growing Degree Days (GDD’s) is an effective way to monitor the progress of a corn crop and in recent years a number of online tools to track GDD’s were developed. For the Northeast, the Climate Smart Farming GDD tool from Cornell is a great option. Dr. Kitty O’Neil with the North Country Regional Ag […]

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia’s corn producers should be on alert for southern corn rust, a devastating disease that has been found in several Georgia counties this year, exacerbated by a warm La Niña winter and hot, humid conditions so far this season. Bob Kemerait, a professor of plant pathology with the University of Georgia College […]

CLEMSON, S.C. — Identifying and distinguishing between common and southern rust is important for proper corn management. This guide is to help growers, consultants, researchers, and Extension personnel correctly identify and manage common and southern rust. Rusts are fungal diseases that affect a wide host range of crops worldwide. In the United States and specifically […]

CORTLAND, N.Y. — At the request of four regional agricultural stakeholders, New York’s solar-powered soil health education trailer will visit farms in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to offer five free programs from June 20 through June 24, 2022. Attendees at the Southern New England Soil Health Trailer Tour programs will see demonstrations and […]

ST. LOUIS — In 2020 we went from one unprecedented event to another. A challenging year for so many, yet photographers continued to share essential farmers’ stories of perseverance through the seventh National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) Fields-of-Corn Photo Contest. Also unprecedented was the number of social shares, breaking records overall for NCGA’s photo contest. NCGA awarded two […]