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Kentucky News updated as of January 26, 2009

  • Hello Everyone,

    As many of you know, the soybean rust (SBR) monitoring network has been successfully used to monitor the distribution and severity of SBR in the U.S. since 2005. An important goal of the network is to function as an early warning system for producers. The sentinel network has proved to be very effective and has saved U.S. soybean producers an estimated $209-$299 million, annually. Savings have mostly come as a result growers not spraying a fungicide when they otherwise would have. Additional savings were based on application of fungicides when the SBR risk was high. In other words, the SBR monitoring network as been embraced by soybean producers as a very effective tool for assisting them in making appropriate fungicide use decision

    Since 2006, the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) funded most SBR monitoring activities in the South, and also provided limited funding for the Northern monitoring network. The balance of the program in the North was funded by soybean Check-off Sources (mostly, United Soybean Board and North Central Soybean Research Program). RMA also provided funds to support an information technology framework that has been an integral part of the ipmPIPE, including SBR efforts. This is how the SBR website, which includes the well-known SBR observation map and disease prediction information (www.sbrusa.net), have been funded.

    In June of 2008, RMA announced that it had restructured its research budget and, as a result, was pulling all funding for the ipmPIPE, including SBR monitoring and IT support. Since that time, and after many meetings and discussions, we have found a way to continue SBR monitoring and information activities for 2009 at about the same level as has occurred the past four years. Costs will be covered through a variety of public and private sources, including at least $364K from soybean Check-off sources. 2010 is another matter, but I am optimistic we will work things out. It is just way too early to be more specific.

    As of January 26, 2009, SBR can still be found in Florida and in protected areas in Louisiana.

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