Some plant pathologists maintain green bridge is not likely to be a disease concern with the traditional Midwestern corn-and-soybean rotation. But with the expanding growth of cover crops and adoption of other crop rotations, it’s a possible disease worry for Corn Belt no-tillers.
Green bridge is the term applied to volunteer plants, weeds and maybe some cover crops in green-up situations, where the pathogen inoculums and pest populations increase between the harvest of one crop…