But late-season risks can still threaten yield potential before the combine enters the field. One of those risks is corn stalk rot. What looks like healthy stalks of corn from the road may already be ...

Stalk rots are one of the most significant set of diseases on corn. These diseases are insidious, and often growers are unaware of their effects until harvest. Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly ...

The end-of-season corn stalk nitrate test (CSNT) is a simple, inexpensive tool that can be used to assess the nitrogen (N) status of a corn crop at the end of the growing season. Data from studies ...

All corn stalk rots weaken stalks and make them more likely to lodge, creating major problems at harvest. But to proactively manage each disease, it’s important to be able to tell them apart. In 2025 ...