Corn School: Managing late-arriving tar spot

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September 22, 2024

Source: RealAgriculture.com

OMAFRA's Albert Tenuta has been testing fungicide treatments to control tar spot in his disease nursery at Rodney, Ontario, since 2020. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Corn School, Tenuta and host Bernard Tobin tour the plots to assess the efficacy of different products applied at VT/RI.

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