The farmer-driven Northern New York Agricultural Development Program funds a survey of common and newly-emerging diseases of corn and soybean crops to help growers in Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties. In 2019, the survey added industrial hemp and alfalfa.
Cornell University Plant Pathologist Gary C. Bergstrom leads the research team that includes Cornell Cooperative Extension field crop specialists Michael Hunter and Kitty O’Neil and cooperating farmers scouting for diseases across the NNY region. Click on the dates below for the results of the annual surveys since 2013.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014