According to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion USD from 2020 to 2023. The study, published in Plant Health Progress, found that diseases reduced corn yields by an estimated 2.5 billion bushels during the 4-year period, highlighting the significant economic and production risks facing growers each season.

According to a new multiyear analysis led by plant disease specialists from across the United States and Ontario, Canada, corn diseases cost farmers an estimated $13.8 billion USD from 2020 to 2023. The study, published in Plant Health Progress, found that diseases reduced corn yields by an estimated 2.5 billion bushels during the 4-year period, highlighting the significant economic and production risks facing growers each season.

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  • Two_Hangmen@midwest.social
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t know about Canada, but in the U.S. farmers are so subsidized they don’t lose money. A lot of people here still have the false illusion of the hard working small farm farmer. They don’t realize how condensed farming has become.