Low Economic Loss Due to the vigilance and preparedness of growers, researchers, cooperative extensions and government and industry experts, U.S. economic losses from Asian soybean rust were low this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Hurricane Dennis could bring some much-needed rain to moisture-deprived Indiana crops as he travels toward the United States. He also might carry some unwanted excess baggage on ...

According to USDA’s Asian soybean rust website, the disease has been detected in Kentucky -- the most northern finding of the season. Asian soybean rust has been detected at a low level in a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory is geared up to assist growers in identifying Asian soybean rust, a disease that could cause economic losses ...

Results are expected this week on samples soybean rust assessment teams took in Louisiana last week. Four teams of officials from government and academia descended on the state last week after an ...

St. Paul, Minn. (November 18, 2004) - With the confirmation that soybean rust has been detected in the U.S., plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS) are offering insight ...

In 2001, the Asian species of Soybean Rust was observed for the first time in South America, notably in Brazil and Paraguay. Known for its rapid, windborne spread, the discovery and impact of Soybean ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans. Soybean rust fungus poses one of the biggest threats to soybean ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Government and industry spent millions of dollars last winter to prepare farmers for the scourge of soybean rust, a yield-robbing fungus that could cost them thousands of extra ...

Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) is a fungal disease that can quickly defoliate plants and reduce pod set, pod fill, seed quality and yield. The disease is found in every soybean region in ...

URBANA, Ill. - Researchers are developing a tool that could give American farmers early warning of the approach of soybean rust, a relentless disease farmers worry could destroy soybean crops if it ...

Although Midwestern soybean growers have yet to experience the brunt of soybean rust, growers in the southern United States are very familiar with the disease. Every year, the fungus slowly moves ...