Hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season. Here is a quick summary of soybean rust for the 2009 season. I will be posting an ICM article with more details soon. I was going to summarize information gleaned from the National Soybean Rust Symposium in early December, but weather prevented me from leaving Iowa.Read More
For those that dearly missed last week's message, I apologize. I did not forget to send the message, but email has not been running properly (or at all) for the past 10+ days. Thankfully, it is now working and we are well into harvest. There are some interesting tidbits of information gathered over the past two weeks.Read More
Update from the south: There were nearly 100 new reports of soybean rust over the past two weeks. This includes reports in 20 new counties in Mississippi, 16 in Alabama, 14 in Louisiana, 13 in Arkansas, 11 in Georgia, 11 in Tennessee, 4 in Kentucky and Missouri, 2 in Florida and 1 in South Carolina. The finds in Missouri and Kentucky were the first for their states.Read More
Update from the south: There were 55 new reports of soybean rust during the past two weeks. This includes reports in 22 new counties in Mississippi, 14 in Arkansas, 9 in Alabama, 4 in Georgia, 3 in Louisiana, and 1 each in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee. The finds in South Carolina and Tennessee were the first in 2009 for their states.Read More