Had a fun dinner last night with past and present students and colleagues at Arkansas State University at #PlantHealth2024. Scrumptious food at Petals of a Peony, Memphis. Asela Wijeratne Sally Mallowa daniel kimtai

A great example of how the best crop disease management starts with the host - resistance!

Love this. Thanks Brett Hale for sharing Damon L. Smith Tom Allen Kiersten Wise Daren Mueller Martin Chilvers Kiersten Wise Trey Price Darcy Telenko Camila Nicolli Maíra Duffeck 🌾🍄🦠🔎🔬💻📊👩‍🔬👩🏼‍💻 Mandy Bish Kaitlyn Bissonnette

When you’ve been stuck in an airport for 13h due to #delays you resort to “redfish”. americanair

Field crop pathologists across the U.S. are collaborating with Damon L. Smith through various projects to help develop the BEST models with high quality non biased data. One project is #NPMTI agpmt.org with funding from Dept. of Agriculture

gofund.me/e426c4f0

So cool to see biological control at work Erin Hodgson Ashley Dean Iowa State IPM Parasitized corn leaf aphids!

In SE IA checking on #corn fungicide trial. July 9 (R1) = few plants with a single tar spot on one leaf in lower canopy. Today (+4weeks R4) = 1-few tar spots on ear leaf of all plants in control Fieldprophet risk <10% thru July. Too hot for tar? Did we need spray? Damon L. Smith

A budding plant pathologist could use some financial help to ensure he gets to stay in grad school The American Phytopathological Society Phytopathology™ gofund.me/e426c4f0

Saw some cool smut this morning. Some of it looked so gnarley! Corn Diseases

Any minute now (and hopefully - IF you’re a corn pathologist) we should start seeing this. Arbitrary dead plants in the field. Split the crown and look for dark brown rotted tissue.

Might this be the future of disease management? Asela Wijeratne Brett Hale Crop Protection Network (CPN)

Thanks for organizing a beautiful day!!! And for having me.

Supper 😁

ISU extension is at #2024FPS talking about NPMTI. Esteban Gonzalez and daniel kimtai will be there this morning. I’ll be there this afternoon. Stop by! We also have cool disease triangle swag!!!

I agree. Fungicides have worn off plus the weather is getting more conducive for tar spot! Checking standability in fields will be crucial for a successful harvest.

Snap to my girls! He was on brim of my hat 😳! LOTS of #corn disease at ISU Armstrong Farm in SW IA: tar, southern, common, gray, northern, Goss’s and bacterial blight! Total disease severity on ear leaf of control ~20-25%. Yield data should be interesting ⁦Corn Diseases⁩

Eric Weuve ISU Farm Management specialist talking at the ISU Northern Research Farm Fall day. It’s a cool wet day! ISU NC Crops

This is a phenomenal collaboration with datascience@uw and Crop Protection Network (CPN) that give corn farmers and consultants usable, interactive tools to make hard decisions a bit easier. Check it out!

Good old fashioned management practice - sanitation!