2017 Soybean Disease/Pest Ratings

To help producers make variety selections for the 2018 crop season, soybean disease and pest ratings are being posted as they become available.

Click here for the page that contains/will contain all disease and pest ratings for 2017 and previous years.

Specifically, click here for Dr. Tom Allen’s 2017 stem canker ratings for inoculated soybean varieties that were grown in the Miss. Official Soybean Variety Trials (OVT).

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

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.

More pest ratings for varieties grown in the Miss. OVT will be posted as they become available.

Composed by Larry G. Heatherly, Nov. 2017, larryheatherly@bellsouth.net