NASHUA, Iowa -The persistent drought brings the potential for aflatoxin in corn, says Connie Hardy with Extension's Grain Quality Initiative told farmers during a fall field day at the Northeast ...

(Reuters) - High levels of a dangerous toxin found in bagged dog food on a grocery store shelf in Iowa have highlighted the prevalence of a problematic mold in last year's U.S. corn crop, as state and ...

Corn, a staple food crop consumed by billions of people and animals worldwide, is frequently contaminated by the fungal toxin aflatoxin B1, a highly potent carcinogen produced by the fungus ...

Excessive levels of aflatoxin are showing up in early samples of many McLennan County farmers’ corn. It’s a bad sign, farmers said this week as harvest time arrives. Aflatoxin, a health threat to ...

The Iowa agriculture department says federal officials have approved a request for corn contaminated by a poison-producing fungus to be blended with other corn for animal feed. The Iowa Department of ...

The aspergillus fungus produces aflatoxin during the kind of drought conditions that were most severe in southern Illinois this summer, said Don White, professor of plant pathology at the University ...