Iowa farmers who seeded cover crops this fall may have to wait until spring before seeing their fields carpeted in green, as ...

While many people treat their geraniums as annuals, these colorful flowers are perennials that can return yearly with proper ...

For some reason, lots of the records are found on washing hanging out on a clothesline. The clothes must smell like ...

The horse chestnut tree in front of my house looks worse than ever. Its remaining leaves are brown, and many fell early. Is ...

Anthracnose stalk rot generally causes lodging higher on the plant than is normal for the other stalk rot organisms. The anthracnose fungus overwinters in infected plant debris. It is a poor soil ...

It can tolerate a wide range of soils, but does not tolerate flooding at all. Wheat is an annual grass that usually is planted at the end of the summer. It overwinters and then starts growing and ...

An agronomist with Golden Harvest says management of tar spot is on farmers minds as they plan for 2025. Nate Prater, who ...

For example, the fungus that causes Rust on tall fescue overwinters as spores on infected grasses. The disease does not infect the plant until a period of warm days and cool nights occur coupled ...

E. turcicum overwinters in infected corn residue on the soil surface. As temperatures begin to rise in the spring the fungus will produce spores on the surface of the residue. These spores are then ...

Scientists estimate there needs to be a minimum of 15 acres of butterflies to be out of the danger zone of migratory collapse. The monarch population west of the Rocky Mountains, which overwinters in ...

Scientists estimate there needs to be a minimum of 15 acres of butterflies to be out of the danger zone of migratory collapse. The monarch population west of the Rocky Mountains, which overwinters in ...

In Delaware, chopping, shredding, or disking fields after harvest may aid in decomposition of corn residue. C. graminicola overwinters well on corn tissues, as well as other grasses and small grains.