August 23, 2005

>>>RUST FLASH<<<

8/23 11:45 a.m. ALERT: Rust found in Autauga County, AL, sentinel plot at Prattville Experimental Station.

8/19 10 p.m. ALERT: Rust-like spores found in Suffolk, VA -- first in state

8/19 ALERT: Rust now in 9th GA county: Sumter. Rust found in Talladega County, AL

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RUST FORECASTS
>> USDA SBR Forecast Last Updated: 08/21/05. 9:57 a.m. CDT -- A cold front, currently extending from eastern New York, through the Ohio River Valley and into southern Missouri, is slowly moving in a southeasterly direction toward the U.S. East Coast. A band of showers and thunderstorms are associated with the front. The cold front is forecast to be off the East Coast by Monday, with its western segment extending from the Carolinas, through northern portions of Georgia, Alabama, and into southern Arkansas and Oklahoma on Monday. The band of showers and thunderstorms will move with the front. Scattered showers in the southeastern U.S. are predicted to become more widespread early in the week as the cold front moves further south.
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ALERT: Soybean rust found in new AL county: Autauga

8/23/2005 11:45 a.m. CDT -- Soybean rust was confirmed today in a soybean sentinel plot at the Prattville Experimental Station in Autauga County, Alabama.

Ed Sikora, professor and Extension plant pathologist at Auburn University, said five infected leaves were collected from the plot, which was at the R6 growth stage.

Autauga, the sixth county with rust in the state, is the next county west of infected Elmore County in central Alabama.
ALERT: Soybean rust found in new AL county: Autauga

+ First soybean rust-like spores in state found in SE Virginia

single cluster of six spores matching the description of Asian soybean rust spores was collected in a spore trap in Suffolk, Va., the first sign that Phakopsora pachyrhizi spores may have traveled as far north as the Hampton Roads area in southeast Virginia.

Officials retrieved the cluster from a trap at the Virginia Tech Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center, where the spores had been collected in the air sampling period from August 3 to August 10.
ALERT: First rust found in S.E. Virginia

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+ Illinois traps rust-like spores in four counties this week

8/19 -- The twice-weekly monitoring of Illinois spore traps turned up soybean rust-like spores in four counties this week: Alexander, Warren, Massac and St. Clair. State specialists continue to discourage Illinois growers from spraying for rust.

Warren County (two spores in trap), on the Mississippi in west-central Illinois, remains the northern-most county in the United States reporting rust-like spores captured in a spore trap. This time around, the Alexander trap had one spore, Massac two spores and St. Clair County, five spores.

> ALERT: Illinois traps rust-like spores
in four counties this week (8/19)

+ University of Illinois Weekly Outlook: Debate About Crop Size and Use Continues

The USDA's August forecasts for the 2005-06 marketing year for corn and soybeans point to declining, but adequate, supplies of both crops. Market participants, however, continue to debate possible changes in forecasts of production and use.
Click here to visit the Univ. of Illinois site for the full story.

>>RUST RESOURCES<<

+ SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER

Visit our SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER, where we keep all the latest updates on rust finds, USDA and NAPDFC forecasts and commentary, tropical weather reports and other timely information.
www.StopSoybeanRust.com SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER

+ USDA adds new feature to site: Timeline for rust finds

On www.sbrusa.net, you can now click on a light-red box on the right of the home page and view the "Chronology of Positive Detections." Once you've opened the table, you can order the list by date of find (starting with earliest or latest) or by state/county of the find in alpha order by state. The list updates automatically every time a new county is turned red on the observation map.

+ Hot topics in Ask the Experts

Remember that we can hook you up with top experts around the country whenever you have a question related to rust or soybean health. Check out the Q&A already posted in "Ask the Experts"
>Read the latest Q & A in Ask the Experts
>Send us your questions and comments here

+ Web seminar on soybean aphids available as rebroadcast

Excellent information and CEU credits await you when you register for and view/listen to the recent Soybean Aphid Web Seminar (June 22) from Dealer & Applicator and Greenbook.net.
> Rebroadcast link for Soybean Aphid Web Seminar

+ National and state rust hotlines and forecasts

> North American Plant Disease Forecast Center forecast: 1-888-835-2583, option 1.
> Auburn University Soybean Rust Hotline: 1-800-774-2847 (BUGS)
> Kentucky Soybean Rust Call-in Line: 1-888-321-6771
> Ohio Rust Hotline: 1-740-653-5419 extension 22.
> Purdue hotline (IN): 1-888-398-4636 (EXT-INFO)
> Tennessee hotline: 1-865-974-2392

NAPDFC offers toll-free line for soybean rust forecasts
Hotline list always available in our SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER

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