Kasey Anderson

By Kasey Anderson August evenings last longer in the Pacific Northwest. The sun lingers in the sky until almost nine o’clock, sometimes later. It’s easy on those nights to forget that September lies ahead; that soon the sun will be tucked deeper each day behind sheets of rain, until it disappears completely into an endless expanse of gray. Some years though, the seasons’ colors blend until time becomes almost imperceptible, or at least irrelevant. The summer of 1996 was like that.

Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) is a foliar disease that, if left untreated, can cause significant yield loss. Yield losses are most severe when NCLB infects corn plants early and reaches the upper leaves by the beginning of ear fill. While it can be found wherever corn is grown, three main factors lead to NCLB infection: air temperature, high humidity and leaf wetness hours. Early NCLB symptoms appear as long, narrow, tan lesions that form parallel to leaf margins.

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