Kentucky News updated as of May11, 2009

• Hello Everyone,
  
  This is the first year that soybean rust (SBR) has successfully overwintered in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, without a break in detection. Weather conditions have been favorable to highly favorable for SBR development in those states, plus Arkansas, Florida, and Mississippi for much of this spring. There has been some new SBR activity in Florida and disease incidence is increasing on Kudzu in positive sites in Louisiana, but there has been no spread to new Kudzu patches or to soybean to date. Specialists in many southern states are expecting SBR to begin spreading into new areas soon, provided conditions remain favorable for disease development.
  
  Delayed planting of soybean in many states, due to wet conditions, may push crop maturity back a few weeks. This, plus the potential for earlier disease development due to successful overwintering in the mid-Gulf region, could increase the potential for SBR to cause more crop damage then we have seen to date. Of course, if conditions turn drier, this increased disease potential may translate into nothing. We all hope this is the case. In any event, it would be prudent to keep tabs on this developing situation.
  
  Below is the current range of SBR in the US.
  
  

2009

• News update (April 20, 2009)
• News update (March 25, 2009)
• News update (March 2, 2009)
• News update (January 26, 2009)

2008

• News update (October 23, 2008)
• News update (October 20, 2008)
• News update (October 05, 2008)
• News update (September 15, 2008)
• News update (September 03, 2008)
• News update (August 27, 2008)
• News update (August 20, 2008)
• News update (August 11, 2008)
• News update (August 02, 2008)
• News update (July 23, 2008)
• News update (July 10, 2008)
• News update (June 24, 2008)
• News update (June 09, 2008)
• News update (May 28, 2008)
• News update (May 07, 2008)
• News update (April 27, 2008)
• News update (April 25, 2008)
• News update (April 09, 2008)
• News update (April 07, 2008)

2007

• News update (October 27, 2007)
• News update (October 22, 2007)
• News update (October 12, 2007)
• News update (October 10, 2007)
• News update (October 3, 2007)
• News update (September 28, 2007)
• News update (September 26, 2007)
• News update (September 21, 2007)
• News update (September 18, 2007)
• News update (September 14, 2007)
• News update (September 9, 2007)
• News update (September 7, 2007)
• News update (August 31, 2007)
• News update (August 27, 2007)
• News update (August 23, 2007)
• News update (August 16, 2007)
• News update (August 14, 2007)
• News update (August 13, 2007)
• News update (June 19, 2007)
  
  
• archived news page (through April, 2005)

Trainings

• no soybean rust specific trainings are presently being offered in Kentucky