Jason Bond

Plant Pathologist

Southern Illinois University

Assessing SDS, SCN Threats to No-Tilled Soybeans and Finding Profitable Strategies and Solutions.

Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and soybean cyst nematode (SCN) continue to be leading causes of yield declines and crop failures in soybeans across the Midwest, posing a major challenge to no-till profitability in an already challenging economic environment, says Jason Bond.

The plant pathologist at Southern Illinois University provides an overview of what happened with SDS incidents in 2019 and discusses how a combination of host resistance and seed treatments impacts the disease — as well as outlines the best methods to deal with this pathogen in the future. He also covers the linkage between SCN and SDS and offer some perspectives on why this combination continues to challenge both farmers and the crop protection industry, even though the compounds to fight them are still effective.