
Corn tar spot infections discovered early in 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024 • 2 PM
Photos courtesy of Darcy Telenko, Purdue University
Darcy Telenko isn't accustomed to finding tar spot in corn at the same time she sees Fusarium head blight (FHB) in wheat. But that's exactly what the Purdue University plant pathologist found on June 11. It was the earliest and lowest in the canopy she's ever seen tar spot in the field.

