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  1. Soybeans Overcoming Diseases, Other Issues

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/soybeans-overcoming-diseases-other-issues

    slammed with diseases and the onset of cooler-than-normal August temperatures, which could delay the ... lots of disease." Anne Dorrance, an Ohio State plant pathologist with the Ohio Agricultural ... soybean cyst nematode (SCN), Sclerotinia, Phomopsis — even diseases that are uncommon in Ohio. "We ...

  2. It's Tick Season. Learn to Keep Yourself, Children and Pets Safe

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/its-tick-season-learn-keep-yourself-children-and-pets-safe

    included), and by doing so can transmit a variety of diseases, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme ... disease. Fortunately, humans cannot get either disease directly from their pets. "Ticks generate a lot ... trunk, palms and soles. Children are more susceptible to the disease than adults. "People who have ...

  3. Ohio Sentinel Plots Track Downy Mildew

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-sentinel-plots-track-downy-mildew

    monitor the development of field crop diseases, such as soybean rust and frogeye leaf spot, researchers ... are now using the system to track a potentially devastating vegetable crop disease.   Plant ... locations to monitor the development of downy mildew, a disease that attacks cucurbits (cantaloupe, ...

  4. Wheat Growers Need to Prepare For Foliar Fungicide Application As Wheat Growth in Ohio Is Ahead Two Weeks

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/wheat-growers-need-prepare-foliar-fungicide-application-wheat-growth-ohio-ahead-two

    managing foliar diseases with fungicides.” Instead, growers need to walk their fields, pull tillers from ... said. When fields reach Feekes 8, growers should start scouting their fields to see if disease is ... already has been reported in some fields,” Paul said. “This disease is favored by cool (50-68 F), rainy ...

  5. Scout Now for Wheat Diseases

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/scout-now-wheat-diseases

    to start scouting for leaf diseases to continue keeping the crop in tip-top shape. "The wheat is ... the period during which we recommend that fields be scouted to determine which disease is present and ... leaf diseases are beginning to show up on susceptible varieties in some fields." Stagonospora leaf ...

  6. Forgotten Corn Diseases Making a Comeback

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/forgotten-corn-diseases-making-comeback

    specialists say it's time growers start to take notice.   Corn diseases, such as northern corn leaf ... re-emergence of these diseases has researchers concerned. "This issue is concerning us because people are ... "High yielding hybrids are such a focus now that selecting for effective resistance to these diseases ...

  7. Pumpkins Facing Another Year of Diseases

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/pumpkins-facing-another-year-diseases

    escape serious disease issues. And this year is no different. Mac Riedel, an Ohio State University ... Extension vegetable specialist, said that fruit quality could become an issue due to such diseases as ... anthracnose, powdery mildew, downy mildew and angular leaf spot — a bacterial disease seen more this year ...

  8. Southern Ohio Corn at Risk for Stewart's Wilt

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/southern-ohio-corn-risk-stewarts-wilt

    a high risk of Stewart's wilt bacterial disease this growing season. Pierce Paul, an Ohio State ... survived, increasing the chances for the spread of the disease, which causes both seedling wilt and leaf ... subsequent risk of Stewart's wilt. Index values less than 90 indicate negligible disease threat, 90-95 ...

  9. Keep an Eye Out for Ticks, OSU Researcher Recommends

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/keep-eye-out-ticks-osu-researcher-recommends

    ticks have been getting a bad rap over the years because of the severe diseases various species carry, ... mainly Lyme disease and spotted fever. "People in general react negatively to ticks. They hear about ... ticks through Lyme disease and it makes them afraid," he said. "I think lack of education and ...

  10. Workshops Offer Farmers Help with Herbicide Resistance Weed Control in Ohio

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/workshops-offer-farmers-help-herbicide-resistance-weed-control-ohio

    Ohio farmers are now asking, he said. “Farmers are seeing pictures of entire fields being mowed down in ...

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