I grew a little corn patch this year for the first time in many years. As expected, no worms or pestilence of any kind because they didn't know it was here. Next year I'll probably have ear worms. I started to replant corn in the same spot but decided to do PEPHPs instead. I keep seeing articles about root worms in the corn belt but I've never heard of anybody having them in the South.
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