Pear rust is an extremely common pear problem that affects both ornamental and fruiting pear trees. The disease is called cedar-hawthorn rust and often causes only aesthetic damage in the form of 1/8- ...

March and April have so far provided the combined total of 12mm of rainfall. Needless to say, crops are not appreciating this lack of water. It remains to be seen what the impact of this will be on ...

WAVERLY -- Sprayers are in short supply as farmers try to determine how serious the threat of soybean rust is in Northeast Iowa. Though the yield-robbing fungus arrived in the United States too late ...

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Wheat growers across the Pacific Northwest are staring down an unusually early, fast-moving outbreak of stripe rust, and the season is already looking like it could be rough for susceptible varieties.