Syngenta, Greensboro, North Carolina, recently announced its latest Seedcare innovation, Victrato seed treatment, is now ...

Gray leaf spot is a widespread fungal disease in corn, responsible for a 23-million-bushel yield loss in the U.S. in 2024. 1 The challenge with controlling gray leaf spot isn’t just deciding whether ...

Farmers looking to address plant-parasitic nematodes and diseases in soybeans and cotton now have access to a new seed ...

A reader recently asked what the brown spots are on their rhubarb. Leaf spots are commonly found on rhubarb plants. This is more of an aesthetic problem and won't severely damage the plant. Rhubarb is ...

Q: This happened to my Mexican plum last summer. What caused it, and what can I do to prevent it this year? A: At first glance I thought this had been caused by caterpillars, but then I decided to ...

Dear Neil: What would be causing my Indian hawthorns to be dying a section at a time? Many of their leaves are turning yellow. They also have brown spots all over them. That’s the Entomosporium fungal ...

Dear Neil: My redtip photinias have brown spots on their leaves and it appears that they are dying. The local store told me it was a fungus and that there was nothing I could do to stop it. It's all ...

Q: My redtip photinias have brown spots on their leaves and it appears that they are dying. The local store told me it was a fungus and that there was nothing I could do to stop it. It’s all up and ...

It’s a sign of the times: spots and dots appearing before our very eyes, seemingly overnight. No, it’s not your vision failing you, and there’s no need to clean your glasses. We’re dealing with ...