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Rapp-Chats
By Rap Owings.
Ext. Agent
From the nation wide monitoring system for the Southern Corn Leaf Blight tSCLB) comes this report:
VIRGINIA - Only one positive report of SCLB. This sample was received from Nelson County on volunteer corn in a field planted to a susceptable strain last year. Southern corn producing states, where in some areas the corn has already taseled, current blight development is far behind that of a comparable period last year. Corn Belt - In the majority of
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