Episode 78: Randy Myers - Developing New Tools to Battle Emerging Crop Diseases

<p>Diseases attacking agricultural crops cause millions of bushels of yield loss for farmers across the United States each year. &nbsp;Farmers battle these diseases in several ways including the use of resistant varieties and hybrids, crop rotation, and fungicides. &nbsp;To complicate things, new diseases arise from time to time. &nbsp;One example is Tar Spot, which has become a major yield robber in Midwestern corn fields over the past several years. &nbsp;In this episode, Dr. Randy Myers from Bayer Crop Science explains how companies develop new tools that farmers can use to protect their crops.</p> <p>To learn more about fungicides available to growers of various crops, please visit: <a href="http://www.cropscience.bayer.us/products/fungicides">http://www.cropscience.bayer.us/products/fungicides</a>.</p>