Articles tagged under: disease

Thompson: Wet Weather Didn’t Bring Blight

Published August 23, 2025

Despite a wet growing season, there haven't been many reports of disease in potatoes. "So far, we have had no late blight, which is a concern when we have heavy rains or even nights with heavy dew," said NDSU Associate…
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Plan Ahead for Next Year

Published November 8, 2024

One of the benefits of the dry weather seen throughout most of the Northern Plains this harvest season was the low disease pressure for soybeans. "We didn't see a lot of diseases showing up because we didn't have any of…
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Tar Spot Threatens Corn Yields

Published October 14, 2024

Tar Spot is a newer disease in the United States, only arriving in 2015. "Tar Spot has led to some pretty big yield losses, as much as 50 bushels," said Andrew Friskop, plant pathologist, NDSU Extension. "We don't have as…
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Increased Disease Pressure in Potatoes

Published August 23, 2024

Speaking at Northland Potatoe Growers Association Field Day, NDSU Extension Plant Pathologist Julie Pasche warned potato growers about the increased potential for disease pressure this harvest season. "Part of the focus is our soilborne pathogens; early-die complex, Verticillium wilt and…
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A Smoother Calving Season

Published May 3, 2024

For Binford, North Dakota rancher Megan Overby, calving progress is close to 80 percent complete. "We start calving at the beginning of April and try to wrap up by mid-June," said Overby. "We may be seeing just a tick of…
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When El Nino Fades

Published March 22, 2024

The Climate Prediction Center summer forecast favors a tendency for a warmer-than-normal summer for much of the crop production area. Farmers Business Network Regional Agronomist Mitchel Roth warns that warm, dry conditions don’t always mean crops will be disease or…
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Proactive, Not Reactive

Published November 17, 2023

BASF Technical Marketing Manager Kim Tutor says 2023 was generally a low-disease year. However, there were pockets of heavy disease pressure. That includes parts of the Northern Plains with white mold, septoria and cercospora. "There are three things you need…
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