Monday Mycotoxin Crop Report for November 23, 2020

Corn Crop Highlight

• Tropical storm Eta rains heavily in the middle and southern Atlantic
• 95% of corn is harvested in the U.S.
• Corn harvest is eight points ahead of the five-year average

What does this mean?

The tropical storm Eta interacted with a cold front, leading to heavy rain across the middle and southern Atlantic. Precipitation also fell on the midwest, pacific northwest, and northern high plains. Corn development is highly variable within some fields. 95% of corn is harvested, 22 points ahead of last year and eight points ahead of the five-year average.

Corn harvest progress by state is as follows:

76-100%

Mycotoxin Reports

We have a deoxynivalenol (DON) report in spring wheat in ND and reports in wheat.

• Spring wheat: ND 1–3 ppm
• Wheat: NC 1–3 ppm
• Wheat: KS 5–10 ppm
• Wheat: VA 3–5 ppm
• Wheat: MO 5–10 ppm

We have reports of aflatoxin in new crop corn in the following states:

• IA 50–100 ppb
• KS 100–300 ppb
• AL 50–100 ppb
• MS 100–300 ppb
• NC 50–100 ppb

We have a new report of fumonisin in corn in T.N., along with prior reports:

• TN 5–10 ppm
• TX 5–10 ppm
• KS > 10 ppm
• OK > 10 ppm
• MO 5–10 ppm

We have reports of T-2/HT-2 in new crop corn in Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba:

• ON > 1000 ppb
• QC > 1000 ppb
• KS > 10 ppm
• OK > 10 ppm
• MB > 1000 ppb

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