Farmers and ranchers in southwest Missouri are being urged to monitor livestock after ergot, a fungus that can be deadly for cattle, was spotted in several hayfields and pastures. #Plant2025 for ...

When Linnda Caporael began nosing into the Salem witch trials as a college student in the early 1970s, she had no idea that a common grain fungus might be responsible for the terrible events of 1692.

Dallis grass’s toxicity is not from the grass but from a fungus inside the head of the flower. The seeds inside the seed head become infected with ergot, which is a neutralized fungus.

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Farmers and ranchers in southwest Missouri are being urged to monitor livestock after ergot, a fungus that can be deadly for cattle, was spotted in several hayfields and pastures.

The cool, wet spring has provided good growing conditions for a fungus that grows on some plant seed heads. The plant that is most prevalent in the Ozarks on which the ergot fungus thrives is fescue.

FARGO -- North Dakota State University specialists are warning that toxic ergot is showing up in some livestock feed this year. Ergot is a fungus that develops in grasses and cereal grains ...

Egypt, the world’s largest buyer of wheat, has turned away two more cargoes of grain purportedly contaminated with fungus, just months after similar rejections led to confusion over import rules ...