Make sure the benefits of planting second-year soybeans exceed the risks, and manage the increased risk with proven practices, says Michigan State University Extension.

BASF's new strobilurin-resistant frogeye leaf spot fungicide for soybeans contains three modes of action and is expected to receive state registrations in time for the 2015 season.

As the fall is approaching and crop harvest plans are being made, it is important to continue to assess disease issues in corn and soybean.

Fungicides applied with herbicides at tillering in wheat may not always result in a profitable investment partly due to low disease pressure at this point in time.

The world's most widely used weed killer is not responsible for perpetuating Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) in soybeans, research shows.

It has been a long cold winter with record low temperatures. This has led to some growers wondering if they still have to worry about plant diseases this growing season. As cold as it has been this winter, it may not have been cold enough for plant pathogens to die. Fungal pathogens have survival structures that enable them withstand very harsh weather conditions.

Researchers at Iowa State University have generated a draft genome sequence of Fusarium virguliforme, a pathogen that causes sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soybeans.

In 2011, University of Kentucky set up 3 commercial-scale, on-farm fungicide tests in fields of yellow and white corn in West Kentucky. A single fungicide application resulted in 20+ bushel yield increases in 2 of the 3 tests.