It's hard for me to muster up the excitement to even write this update, but it does bring a sense of closure to the season to say – we made it another year without soybean rust affecting Iowa soybeans. That makes 7 years in a row, if anyone besides me is counting.

Update from the south: Much of the southern states are still experiencing very dry conditions. A few states reported some recent rain, but not enough to improve conditions for rust development. Consequently, very little soybean rust has been reported – one new county in Florida and one additional report in Puerto Rico.

Update from the South

I hope that most everyone does not read this email until more acres are planted, but for those poor folks tethered to a computer, much like me, here is the first soybean rust update for 2011.

Update from the South: Over the past few weeks, soybean rust was found in North Carolina, Georgia and additional counties in Florida. The positive identification of rust in North Carolina surprised many of us because it was hundreds of miles from known source areas across the Southeast in Florida, Alabama, and Georgia.
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