Summer weather is fueling disease pressure in many midwestern fields.

Chris Souder, Midwest Agronomy Lead for DEKLAB/Asgrow tells Brownfield he is seeing plenty of the usual corn diseases like grey leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight.

“In northeast Missouri, southeast Iowa and west central Illinois. With the high levels of rain and high humidity in those areas it is the perfect environment for the development of those diseases.”

He says wind patterns have also helped southern rust spread further north.

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