At this point of the growing season the picture starts to become clearer about what farmers are dealing with in their fields this year. Grant Harms is a technical field agronomist with Corteva Agriscience and he says that southern rust is not as widespread in Iowa this year as it was last year and farmers might be making spraying decisions based on less disease pressure.
Harms also discusses some of the insects that are causing problems for producers this growing season.
Much like disease pressure, insect pressure can be dependent on weather conditions says Harms.
That was Grant Harms, technical field agronomist with Corteva Agriscience.
