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AgriGold Agronomist Joe Stephan says the corn crop is especially vulnerable to diseases this year because of the late planting season.

“That would include tar spot, southern rust, as well as physoderma brown spot,” he says.

He tells Brownfield diseases are emerging in certain areas of Indiana.

“Tar spot seems to be a bigger issue in the northern counties, especially with the customers running irrigation systems,” he says. “Southern rust is one you may or may not have, but we did find a pocket of southern rust northeast of Indianapolis.”

Stephan says other states are also seeing disease pressure.

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