2017 Soybean Disease and Pest Ratings

To help producers predict how their variety selections might react to disease outbreaks in the 2018 crop season, disease ratings for soybean varieties grown in the 2017 Miss. Soybean Variety Trials (OVT) at various locations in the state have been posted.

Click here for foliar disease ratings made in 2017.

Click here specifically for 2017 stem canker ratings for inoculated soybean varieties that were grown in the 2017 Miss. Soybean Variety Trials.

Click here to access the page that contains the “2017 Arkansas Soybean Disease Screening Evaluations” for stem canker, frogeye leaf spot, and root-knot nematode.

Click here for ratings of varieties made in previous years.

Click here for an article titled “Field Performance of Selected Soybean Varieties in a Southern Root-Knot Nematode (RKN)-Infested Field” authored by Michael Emerson and Dr. Travis Faske at the Univ. of Arkansas. These ratings were made on selected soybean varieties that were grown in a production field with a high population density of the RKN pest.

Composed by Larry G. Heatherly, Apr. 2018, larryheatherly@bellsouth.net