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N. WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. - Farmers have been on a roller coaster ride so far this growing season.

Kyle Henninger got an unwelcome surprise last fall when he sent three loads of corn to the mill. His go-to buyer rejected the grain because it tested too high for aflatoxin — a fungal byproduct that the Lehigh Valley farmer had never faced before. “The corn looked as good as the other corn looked,” he said. Henninger was far from the only Pennsylvania corn grower to deal with aflatoxin in the 2020 crop. The aspergillus fungus that produces the toxin prefers hot, dry conditions, which prevailed last summer, especially in the central and western parts of the state. “We reall...