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Reminder that New Disease Prediction Tool on Crop Protection Network

By Daren S Mueller

With older tools like Tarspotter and Sporecaster no longer supported, the Crop Protection Network (CPN) has introduced the Crop Disease Forecasting Tool, a new free web-based tool to assess risk for diseases in corn and soybeans.

This tool builds on years of university-led field data collection and modeling to provide field-specific risk forecasts for foliar diseases.

Source : iastate.edu

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