Iowa agricultural officials are urging farmers not to panic following the discovery of Asian soybean rust research plots owned by Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. "There is no cause for ...

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 ...

Looking for a silver lining in 2011 weather patterns? It might be more of a thread than a lining, but soybean rust didn’t like last year’s weather. Daren Mueller, Iowa State University plant ...

WATERLOO, Iowa -- The discovery of Asian soybean rust in the United States Nov. 10 wasn't unexpected, although farmers had hoped it might be a few years before the disease was found. Researchers and ...

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 ...

Mother Nature can be your friend or foe. For a lot of farmers, she was the latter this past winter. One benefit of the brutally cold weather, though, is that researchers found little evidence of ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Scientists have been watching the invader for more than 30 years, powerless to stop its movement around the globe. Carried by the wind, it attaches itself to the leaves of soybean ...

Soy biodiesel, insect and weed management, and new production systems were all topics at the Missouri Soybean Association meeting Thursday in Jackson, but that wasn't why most soybean farmers showed ...

Nebraska is one of the nation's leading soybean-producing states, but according to University of Nebraska agricultural officials, it's not a matter of if, but when a devastating soybean disease could ...

Illinois agriculture officials confirmed the state's first-ever case of Asian soybean rust Friday, but say the yield-robbing disease will not affect this year's crop and perhaps not next year's either ...

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 ...