Headline : Corn Disease: Take These Key Steps When Fighting Fusarium

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Fusarium is a disease that strikes early, flies under the radar for much of the growing season and can cause headaches during harvest. While there’s no silver bullet for fusarium, there are steps you can take to protect your corn crop.

Fusarium affects corn and a multitude of other crops around the country. It’s caused by the fungus Fusarium verticillioides.

“Once it gets in the soil, it’s very difficult to get rid of,” says LG Seeds Agronomist Dan Mitchell. Fusarium infects crops early, and its ultimate impact hinges in part on the health of the crop.

Constant wet, cold weather early in the season makes corn more vulnerable to fusarium infection, as well as other diseases. “It’s rarely just one issue at a time when it comes to fusarium,” Mitchell explains. “Diseases tend to feed off of each other.”

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