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  1. How to Use the Crop Risk Tool

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-22/how-use-crop-risk-tool

    Unfortunately, there is no crystal ball that can reveal what impact disease will have on your ... Network to assess disease risk. The Crop Risk Tool forecasts the risk of multiple foliar diseases like tar ... spot and gray leaf spot in corn and white mold in soybean using validated disease models and ...

  2. Battle for the Belt: Season 3, Episode 16 – Tar Spot in Corn

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-22/battle-belt-season-3-episode-16-%E2%80%93-tar-spot-corn

    and where tar spot is occurring and the impact of this important disease. Crop Progress Updates from ... Specialist, discusses tar spot symptoms and scouting techniques. Tar spot is a relatively new disease in Ohio, ... environments favor this disease. This year, OSU Extension on farm research network, eFields, is conducting ...

  3. Corn Vomitoxin Management Critical Considerations at Tassel

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-22/corn-vomitoxin-management-critical-considerations-tassel

    ear rot (GER), a disease caused by the fungus  Fusarium graminearum. The Ohio State University Cereal ... many fungicides available for corn disease management, two are considered to be the most consistently ... applications in DON management. However, weather conditions did not favor disease development, and all of our ...

  4. Statewide Slug Monitoring Project – Update #9

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-22/statewide-slug-monitoring-project-%E2%80%93-update-9

    Our ninth (and final) slug update for the season and it covers monitoring from July 7 th to July ... counties have completed the monitoring period, so we will no longer be giving weekly slug updates. Slug ...

  5. Disease Management in Forages

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/disease-management-forages

    Diseases can negatively affect stand establishment, limit yields and hasten stand decline in ... established forage crops. Effects of disease on individual plants vary widely. Some diseases are lethal while ... production practices will lower the chances for serious losses to forage productivity due to disease because ...

  6. Preserving Forage as Hay and Silage

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/preserving-forage-hay-and-silage

    option when the ground is damp, because the crop can first be mowed into narrow windrows to allow more ... mowing the crop, so consider the forecasted weather conditions and only apply them if good drying ... morning after mowing when the forage is 40%–60% percent moisture to avoid excessive leaf loss later when ...

  7. Battle for the Belt: Season 3, Episode 14: Corn Disease

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-20/battle-belt-season-3-episode-14-corn-disease

    Pathology and State Extension Specialist for Cereal Crop Pathology. We discussed common diseases in corn, ear ... rots, vomitoxin, and crop disease forecasting tools. Season 3, Episode 14 of Battle for the Belt is now ... in corn. What are the potential impacts of planting date and seeding rate on corn disease ...

  8. Early Detection, Better Decisions: Scout for Soybean Diseases and Test for SCN

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-21/early-detection-better-decisions-scout-soybean-diseases-and-test

    for growers to walk their fields and scout for early symptoms of disease and other abnormalities. At ... along rows. Stem lesions and root rot – early indicators of disease that can escalate under favorable ... needed based on disease presence and pressure. Uneven growth or stunting – especially in fields with ...

  9. Statewide Slug Monitoring Project – Update # 8

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-21/statewide-slug-monitoring-project-%E2%80%93-update-8

    Our eighth slug update covers monitoring from June 30 th to July 6th. During this time, there were ...

  10. Perennial Warm-Season Grasses

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/specialization-areas/forages/perennial-warm-season-grasses

    location, year, and species. Leave at least a 5-inch stubble for rapid regrowth. Mowing or grazing closer ...

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