Data show early-season applications have helped produce a significant increase in crop protection activity thus far in 2024.

While cover crops help growers overall, some choices can actually host plant diseases.

Multistate scientific project supported by a $5.7 million grant from USDA NIFA.

Field conditions are dramatically different from lab conditions. Here’s the type of research we need to assess just how effective this new tool is.

Government agency is investing more than $70 million in 374 projects through the Plant Protection Act’s Section 7721 program.

Multi-state project aims to develop cultivars resistant to five common spinach diseases.

Purdue University blends agriculture and bioengineering to develop patented phenotyping tool.

We asked an expert about how breeders keep up with rapidly developing disease strains.

The country’s leading experts weigh in on why these insects, weeds, and diseases are such a problem.

Companies turn focus to Phytophthora-resistant varieties.

Here are some hard-earned lessons for growers on managing the disease.

Though this virus found in Pacific Northwest berries is not a huge concern, blueberry shock virus still bears monitoring.

Learn how a $3.95 million grant from USDA is being used to develop effective management strategies for blueberry fruit rot.

While there is no simple solution to improving uptake of the nutrient, ‘Honeycrisp’ growers have various options.

Successful chemigation via drip. Flutriafol applied as a drench product benefits in the battle against malady.

Successful early detection could provide grape growers with up to one year of warning to intervene.

Good data can help you ID problems before they overwhelm your production.

Grant from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research aimed to increase crop resistance to the deadly pathogen.

Fighting fire with fire, study reveals how fungus delivers RNA weaponry.