WORKERS WHO WILL BE PAID. NEW TONIGHT SOME FARMERS ARE SEEING LOSSES ON THEIR CORN CROP THIS SEASON. KCCI PEPPER TALKED WITH THE WOMAN TRACKING THE CROP DISEASE THAT’S CAUSING THIS PROBLEM. SHE SAYS ...

MAXWELL, Iowa — For the past several weeks, a corn disease called southern rust has been quickly spreading across Iowa. According to the Crop Protection Network, it is already in 40 Iowa counties as ...

What’s usually a rare sight this harvest season — a rain delay — briefly halted work for Ward and Bryant Hunter. An inch of rain Sunday night was enough to pause the combines, but the father-son duo ...

The southern Iowa site at Crawfordsville, planted May 7 and harvested Sept. 30, grabbed the top yield average at 246.6 ...

An unusually warm, wet summer fueled the spread of crop diseases, and now some corn farmers have reported lower-than-expected yields.

Alison Robertson says she has been at Iowa State University (ISU) for 21 years, and she’s never seen as widespread a problem southern rust is in Iowa this season. She believes the disease is present ...

THAT’S COMING UP IN A LITTLE BIT. STACEY. THANKS AND NEW TONIGHT. AN UNUSUAL CROP DISEASE IS SHOWING UP IN SOME FIELDS ACROSS OUR STATE. IT’S CALLED SOUTHERN RUST AND IT CAN BE HARMFUL TO CORN. KCCI ...

A group of farmers in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota have started growing more oats. A new mill provides them with hope ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — According to experts, over 60 Iowa counties’ corn fields are infected with the Southern Rust fungus. Farmers are busy working hard to combat the spreading disease. Matt Chambers, a ...

A fungus that attacks corn has spread to more than 40 Iowa counties. Meaghan Anderson, an extension field agronomist with Iowa State University, says southern rust creates reddish-orange patches on ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Iowa farmers are near the end of harvest season for corn and soybean crops following yet another week of above-average temperatures in the state. While crop ...