Kentucky News updated as of September 29, 2009

• Below is the current distribution of Soybean Rust in the US. Yesterday, we found the disease in a cover crop field at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton, Caldwell County. The level of disease was fairly significant (50% incidence and 2% severity), but since the field was at the R7 growth stage, there was no risk of yield loss. The other confirmations made in KY for 2009 have been in Ballard, Henderson, Union, and Warren Counties. I doubt that SBR will cause any yield loss in KY this year, but there is no question that some fields in more southerly states, like Louisiana and Mississippi, will be significantly impacted. But even in those states, losses will be sporadic and highly variable (i.e., not generally damaging). If the same distribution, as indicated on the below map, occurred a month earlier, I would be much less confident about the outcome here.
  
  We will be shutting down the 2009 SBR monitoring program for 2009 on Friday. This will be the final update for 2009. Monitoring SBR from this point on is interesting, but is not a productive use of valuable human and financial resources. We will be monitoring SBR again in 2010, but the system will be somewhat changed. Monitoring for the disease in the deep south will be about the same as it has been the last few years, but monitoring in the Kentucky and north will be reduced somewhat. Fear not! We have learned a great deal about SBR in the past 5 years, and everyone (including me) feels very comfortable that we can successfully monitor SBR in the north with fewer plots, but with greater emphasis on disease predictive models, spore trap finds, and information on SBR activity in the deep south.
  
  
• Have a nice fall and winter. Be sure to “tune in” during 2010.

• Have a rust-free day.

2009

• News Update (Sept. 21, 2009)
• News Update (Sept. 16, 2009)
• News Update (Sept. 11. 2009)
• News Update (Sept. 8, 2009)
• News Update (August 31, 2009)
• News Update (August 24, 2009)
• News Update (August 17, 2009)
• News Update (August 10, 2009)
• News Update (July 29, 2009)
• News Update (July 20, 2009)
• News Update (July 14, 2009)
• News Update (July 7, 2009)
• News Update (June 22, 2009)
• News update (June 5, 2009)
• News update (May 11, 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