“I got a couple of fields around Cheney and Harper that ... threat by corn leafhoppers with a proclivity for stunting corn ...

and scouting efforts across Kansas confirmed active leaf hoppers in many additional counties. Although most of the positive reports are from field corn, corn stunt spiroplasma was also confirmed ...

Drought conditions in Kansas at the end of 2024 ... However, many fields throughout the state were filling pods just as populations of corn earworms (soybean podworms) were depositing eggs.

Government forecasters predict Kansas farmers this season will bring in far bigger harvests of corn, sorghum and soybeans than during last year’s drought. In its monthly crop production report ...