Volume
4 Issue 6
June 26, 2007
Soybean Rust Update - Mostly Quiet
Reports on soybean rust surveillance have been quiet. With the
latest report out of Texas, things get a little more interesting.
These reports indicate soybean rust infections in commercial fields.
The following is the June 22, 2007 report posted at the USDA Soybean
Rust reporting web site:
http://www.sbrusa.net/
United States Soybean Rust Commentary (updated: 06/22/07):
 Soybean
rust was reported in three new locations June 21, 2007. One was in
Cameron County, Texas in a commercial field. The other two were in
Louisiana in soybean sentinel plots located in Avoyelles and Rapides
Parishes. These parishes are in the central portion of the state
approximately 80 miles north of the positive kudzu sites in the
coastal parishes of Iberia and St. Mary. On June 14th, a commercial
soybean field in Hidalgo County, Texas was confirmed to have soybean
rust. This county had rust earlier in the year. Scouting for soybean
rust has intensified and soybean sentinel plots are now being
monitored throughout all soybean growing areas. Moisture conditions
vary, but rains have been somewhat regular in areas with rust and
rains have occurred or are expected in most other soybean producing
areas in the next few days. The reports of rust occurrences to date
are similar to last year with some exceptions of earlier reports of
rust in Louisiana and in Texas on a commercial soybean field.
Soybean rust has been detected in 10 counties in Florida, five
counties in each of Georgia and Alabama, and four Parishes in
Louisiana and three counties Texas.
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