A warmer winter than usual means a higher stripe rust prediction than usual. Typically, the predicted stripe rust severity ...

BLOOMINGTON - The year 2005 may well go down in the books as the year Central Illinois farmers dodged a bullet, or two. Call it the year of what didn't happen. Farmers looked for signs of ...

Across Iowa's sprawling cornfields, concerns are mounting over an early and widespread outbreak of Southern rust, a fungal disease that poses a severe threat to corn crops. Farmers and experts are ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Despite dire warnings about a soybean fungus that has the potential to cause millions of dollars in damage, Ohio farmers aren't panicking. That's because agriculture plant and ...