By Bethany Kroeze, AgVenture Marketing Manager

Did you have prevent plant acres in 2019? In Iowa alone, there were more than 460,000 prevented plant acres last year. One concern that stems from unplanted fields is fallow syndrome.

Farmers in the Delta and Southeast US are already familiar with Target Spot, but Midwest farmers are beginning to notice the foliar soybean disease.

The soybean stem borer (Dectes texus) is a long horn beetle that can cause lodging in soybean plants, resulting in harvest difficulties and significant yield loss.

Wet and cool conditions during flowering are ideal for development of the fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

No variety is completely resistant to white mold, particularly under severe disease pressure, but differences in tolerance exist among varieties.