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Farmers and aerial applicators tell Randy Dowdy and David Hula some of the key considerations are application timing, droplet ...
Unlike most leaf diseases, tar spot starts impacting the crop at the bottom of plants. That means fungicides you apply must ...
Fungicides may not always result in an increase in ROI, but they always equate to added staygreen and increased standability.
I was trimming some of my Aphrodite sweetshrub bushes and found a weird growth on them. I was trimming them back anyway, so I ...
Wet weather during the hot summer or cooler winter months can cause disease problems for our lawns and shrubs.
Crops are growing nicely at the Kitzman farm, where Chance and his wife, Nicole, and daughter, Lainey, farm with Chance’s ...
Fungicide resistance in plant pathogens has emerged as a critical concern for global agriculture, threatening crop yields and food security. This phenomenon occurs when fungal populations evolve ...
Late blight is a fungal disease that affects potatoes and tomatoes, and can cause widespread crop destruction. The disease ...
A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial ...
To minimise this risk, applying fungicides before rain can significantly reduce the chances of infection, they said, adding that if the plant is already coated with fungicide, it forms a ...
The agricultural weather from the National Weather Service Climate Predication Center 8-to-14-day outlook for July 1 to July ...
While I don't recommend spraying when leaf spot occurs late in the season, I would spray now with a fungicide containing chlorothalonil (one common name is daconil). Make sure the plants are well ...