BLACKSTONE, Va. — The destructive corn tar spot is continuing its spread across the commonwealth—disrupting harvests and confounding growers with misleading symptoms. Caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, the emerging disease was first identified in the U.S. in 2015 and has reached corn fields across the mid-Atlantic region. Tar spot was first detected in Virginia […]
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