Tar spot spotted in NY and PA

Tar spot is making in-roads in the Northeast. Gary Bergstrom, plant pathologist with Cornell University, presented “Let’s Talk about Field Crop Diseases” as part of the Southwest New York Crop Webinar recently. A newcomer to the Northeast, tar spot is a fungal disease. “It’s not new in the world, but new in the U.S.,” Bergstrom said. There