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Purdue Extension gets funding to continue helping Indiana farmers manage diseases
A Purdue Extension corn specialist says helping farmers address the impacts of corn fungal disease is important to their bottom line.
Dan Quinn says diseases can cause significant yield loss.
“What’s really challenging is that you can’t often see it, so we kind of just recommend as we get closer to harvest to take some time and pull some years back,” he says. “Maybe start to understand is there a chance that it that it’s out there.”
He tells Brownfield funding from the Indiana Corn Marketing Council is helping expand research efforts.
“We can’t be in every county in the state at one time, so we have to rely on our county educators and those relationships with the farmers,” he says. “Having that funding there to be able to help or give the give the educators a chance to communicate and work with their farmers to get these samples.”
Quinn says the project will also research soybean issues to continue to help Indiana farmers access risk and management practices.
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