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Preventing Goss’s Wilt starts and ends with hybrid selection
Mar 31, 2017, 12:46 PM
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An agronomist says corn farmers that did not plan ahead for an increasingly common bacterial disease could face difficulties this year.
Craig LaVoi covers southwest Minnesota for Peterson Farms Seed and tells Brownfield the first line of defense against Goss’s Wilt is hybrid selection.
“Goss’s is a bacterial disease, so our fungicides will not control Goss’s Wilt.”
He says the plant disease was first identified in Nebraska several decades ago and has slowly spread across the Northern and Eastern Corn Belt as corn-on-corn gained in popularity.
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