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Rapp-Chats
By Rap Owings,
Ext. Agent
Several weeks ago the Southern Com Leaf Blight started showing up in com fields from Norfolk, Virginia to Florida. This fungus disease then swung up through several of the major com producing states of the mid-west. And ! it is presently scattered throughout our state of Virginia.
Roy Heltzel, County Agent in Culpeper, reports several hundred seres affected. The blight moved into Madison County last week and is pretty general throughout that county. As I see it now, the com Diignt probably will be in Rappahannock by the time this article is published.
|How will this affect your com crop? Fourtunately, most of our com is already made. Cora that is well along into the hard dent stage, that will be harvested for grain, should not be greatly affected. Com being harvested for silagf will loose some of its feeding value due to the severe browning of the leaves. Coro that is in the milk stage can be severely affected. One Held that I looked at in Madison last Tuesday had turned a black brown and the ears had splotches of green mold on the kernels. If jyou have silage com that is reasonably close to maturity, I strongly recommend that you start harvesting as soon as possible and keep at it until the job is done. The first signs of Southern Com Blight are dark stripes and blotches on the leaves. Within 3-5 days all of the leaves will have turned a dark brown. From a distance a blighted com field has a black-brown appearance.
If you suspect blight in your com, please call the county agent’s office 675-3619, as I would like to keep a record of the spread of the disease and the varieties affected.
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