Vegetable Crops Hotline A newsletter for commercial vegetable growers prepared by the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service

Sweet Corn Virus Survey

March 15, 2018 - Included in Issue: 639

By: Liz Maynard

The USDA lab out of Wooster, Ohio is interested in surveying Indiana sweet corn for virus. They are especially interested in sweet corn near johnsongrass, but other fields are ok too. If you are interested, please let me know or contact Mark Jones, USDA Agronomist,mark.jones@ars.usda.gov, (330) 202-3555 ext. 2837.

Your participation would be pretty simple: one time when the corn is 15 to 30 inches tall you would collect ten leaf samples on a field transect and also a sample of any odd looking plants and mail them to the USDA lab for analysis. USDA would mail you a packet with sample bags and instructions and mailing materials.

If you are interested, but would rather have someone else collect the samples, I can check with a local county Extension educator to see if they would be interested in collecting the samples.

Thanks for considering this!

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