Nearly a week after Asian soybean rust was located in south Louisiana and Alabama soybeans, the fungal disease hadn’t been found elsewhere. It was not from lack of looking, though.

“We’ve continued to scout and make (leaf) collections, but nothing has been found since the St. Martin Parish outbreak,” said Clayton Hollier, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist on June 12.

Having already found rust in south Louisiana kudzu, “my associate looked at several fields that Blaine Viator — a consultant that has helped us out a lot with rust monitoring — has maintained. She found rust in two of Viator’s sentinel plots.”

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