Good morning everybody, Evan with EZ Custom Ag here. If you’ve been following our last few videos, we’ve talked a lot about fungicide and how diseases come when we have hours of leaf wetness.
Well, welcome to Ohio, where we tend to have fog about every day. This is when we get our most hours of leaf wetness, because you’re getting your dew and your fogs setting in around midnight or one o ‘clock in the morning. Here we are at almost nine o ‘clock this morning, and we’re still a few hours from getting to burn it off.
So, 10, 11 hours of leaf wetness every day really brings out the diseases. We’ve been spraying the past few days, been walking fields as we’ve been spraying, starting to see some more frog eye leaf spot in the beans every day. It’s just kind of showing its ugly head, and then gray leaf spot in the corn has come a long ways in the past few days.
We saw our first northern corn leaf blight lesion yesterday, so just want to let everybody know that they need to stay vigilant out there, and with all this prolonged leaf wetness that we’ve had, diseases could be bad this year.
I’ve already heard reports of tar spot in northern Indiana. Those guys are still right at tassel or pretassel, so we always need to stay vigilant out there and stay ahead of this disease game, because if it gets ahead of you, we’re all in trouble.
So, everybody keep walking your fields, and we’ll see you next time out in the field.