ABSTRACT
Cultural practices such as early harvest, planting adapted cultivars, managing nutrient inputs, and optimizing planting dates may help reduce the level of aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of maize grain in most growing seasons;
however, when environmental conditions are conducive for the production of these mycotoxins, cultural practices alone are not sufficient to prevent mycotoxin contamination that exceeds the standards established by the United States and its foreign trading partners.
