SBR is really taking hold in southern and northeast
Alabama, and also in parts of Georgia, Florida and South Carolinia. However,
there is limited activity in the Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi at this
time. For example, a report I received today from Mississippi State
University’s Dr. Tom Allen indicated that SBR is “hard to find” in that state.
He attributed that outcome to rather dry conditions across much of that state
during the last month. I see no immenent SBR risk for KY at this time. Thus, our
risk continues to be very low. Most of Kentucky’s full season soybean crop is now out of the woods now in terms of risk – they are just too far along and SBR
could not develop fast enough to hurt them - but doublecrop beans still
could be significantly affected if we were to find rust in the next couple of
weeks (which is very unlikely in my opinion).
We are continuing to
monitor five sentinel plots for SBR. I will let you know if there are any
changes to the status quo.
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