Bob Mulrooney, Extension Plant Pathologist; bobmul@udel.edu
On June 9, soybean rust was detected on kudzu in Grady County, Georgia. On June 8, soybean rust was confirmed on samples collected in late May from a soybean sentinel plot in Washington County in Alabama. On June 4, soybean rust was found in a soybean sentinel plot in Iberia Parish in Louisiana. The reports of soybean rust on soybeans in Alabama and Louisiana are the earliest the disease has ever been detected on soybeans in either state.
