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Warm, wet conditions right for disease pressure

A southern Indiana farmer says the recent warm and wet conditions are just right for the development of crop diseases.

Ben Kron says he will likely apply fungicide early this year.

“Sometimes if the pressure is there, like this year, we may end up going before corn produces a tassle and making a fungicide application and we may even make two applications of  it,” he says.

He tells Brownfield there has been some gray leaf spot in corn.

But, he says the conditions have not hindered crop growth.

“If things keep going the way they are, we really could have a pretty good crop,” he says.

Kron says timely rains have helped and, if it keeps up, they might apply late-season nitrogen.

Audio: Ben Kron, Indiana farmer