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Kentucky News updated as of
June 19, 2007
- Hello Everyone,
Below is the current (June 18) map on the USDA
SBR public website. As you can see, the
SBR finds have not changed much in the
last couple of weeks. Interestingly,
the weather has been mostly favorable
for SBR in Louisiana since the initial
detection of SBR in Kudzu on May 8. Louisiana officials
did find the disease in a neighboring
parish, but no finds have been reported
so far in soybean in Louisiana. The only
soybean rust found in any commercial
fields this year is in extreme southern
Texas (Hildago County). Incidence of
the disease in that field is very low
and so is the severity.Weather conditions
in the south are hot, but the moisture
is generally favorable for SBR in FL,
LA, and parts of AL, GA, and SC. Most of Mississippi
(where soybeans are grown) and parts
of AL is still extremely dry.
My
prediction is that we will soon see an increase in activity
somewhere, but unless things change radically
over the next 1.5 months (and they can!), we will be in good shape
and the US soybean crop will have dodged yet another SBR bullet.
Please, do not become complacent. This disease is unlike any other
on soybean, and things can change very rapidly. We are far from
being “out of the
woods”, especially considering all the late-planted soybeans
in the south this year (due to more doublecropping
with wheat in some areas and replanting
due to extremely dry weather).
- Soybean rust is now confirmed to be active in three states: Alabama,
Florida and Georgia. [read more]
- Asian
Rust Found on Kentucky Soybeans [read
more]
- Soy Rust Hotline available offers new service
- KY
Soybean Rust Hotline
(888-321-6771) is now being
updated bi-weekly; weekly updates will
begin in May.
- Tradename
of Cheminova's Section 18 soybean rust
product containing flutriafol changed
to TOPGUARD (pdf)
- Putting
2005 Soybean Rust Spore Trapping Efforts
into Proper Perspective By
Don Hershman (pdf)
- DO
SOYBEAN PRODUCTION PRACTICES NEED
TO CHANGE DUE TO SOYBEAN RUST?
By Jim Herbek and Chad Lee (Source = Kentucky
Pest
News, April 25, 2005)
- archived news page (through
April, 2005)
Trainings
- no soybean rust specific trainings
are presently being offered in Kentucky
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