SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Spores thought to cause a yield-reducing disease called soybean rust were detected in South Dakota again last year. The disease itself made it to the United States in 2004.

AMES, Iowa -- The; unusually active hurricane season may have provided the conduit for Asian soybean rust to land in the United States, says an Iowa State University expert on the disease. X.B. Yang, ...

As recently as early November, only Louisiana was known to be harboring the deadly soybean rust spore pushed northward from South America in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan. In just a few weeks, a fungal ...

Soybean rust, soybean aphids, drought and (close to) $7 beans. As I write this on June 17, at least one of these statements is true for West-Central Illinois (hint, it's not any of the first three).

It is important to continue to scout for diseases in both corn and soybeans. Recent rain events have increased favorable environmental conditions for the development of foliar diseases in both crops.