August 16, 2005 >>>RUST FLASH<<< 8/15: First rust found in South Carolina 8/12 ALERT: Rust in three more FL counties: Columbia, Hillsborough and Taylor 8/11 ALERT: Four more commercial fields have rust in Baldwin County, AL Welcome to the StopSoybeanRust.com Bulletin, your by-request weekly update on Asian soybean rust. Please forward this Bulletin to friends and colleagues, who can subscribe here to receive the Bulletin and our Rust Flash alerts. Past issues are archived here. RUST FORECASTS >> USDA SBR Forecast Last Updated: 8/15/2005 12:48 p.m. CDT -- The rust model predicts new spore transport and depositions to N. FL thru GA, AL, MS, E. LA and into N.E. AR, S.E. MO, S. KY, the Carolinas and S. VA thru the 16th. Wet weather in MW and along the Gulf Coast favorable for rust. Mobile teams to stay in the field. >>NAPDFC Forecast 8/15/2005: Mon. & Tuesday -- Strongly Moderate Risk to S.E. MS, S. AL, S. GA, the FL panhandle and N. FL. Moderate Risk for S. and C. FL, C. AL, C. GA and C. and E. SC, esp. the southern counties. Low Risk otherwise. See our SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER for full forecasts, fully updated. >>>New on StopSoybeanRust.com this week:<<< + Rust reaches South Carolina for the first time: Hampton County commercial field As we reported at 8 o'clock last night on our site, soybean rust was confirmed in the southern part of South Carolina in a Hampton County commercial soybean field. This is the first confirmed rust in the state and becomes the northern-most county with rust in the country, just a bit north of Effingham County right across the border in Georgia. ALERT: First rust found in S.C. commercial field; furthest north yet + Three more rust counties brings Florida count to 9 for the week; 18 total 8/12: Asian soybean rust was confirmed by PCR testing Friday for three more Florida counties: Taylor, Columbia and Hillsborough. That makes 18 Florida counties positive for rust, with half of those confirmations reported just during last week. See links below to stories about all nine new finds. > ALERT: Rust in another three FL counties -- nine total this week (8/12) > ALERT: Three new Florida counties have rust in soybean sentinel plots (8/10) > ALERT: Three new FL counties with rust on kudzu; Madison County is first to have rust in a grower field (8/8) The Bulletin is sponsored by Bayer CropScience. + Baldwin County, AL, hit with rust in five locations; four commercial, one kudzu 8/11/2005 - Soybean rust was found in four new commercial soybean fields in Baldwin County, AL, on August 9, as well as in a kudzu patch for the first kudzu find this year in AL. The county now has five commercial fields infected. ALERT: Baldwin County, AL, has rust in five commercial fields + Soybeans in better shape than corn; 89 percent setting pods Soybean ratings in yesterday's Crop Progress report from USDA held steady, with a one-point shift upward from good to excellent compared with last week. Pod set is 10 points ahead of this time last year, 89 percent vs. 79 percent. Soybean conditions steady, 89 percent setting pods + Good of IL says USDA grain stocks report about as expected 8/15 -- URBANA, Ill. -- Darrel Good walks us through the latest predictions for soybean (and corn) stocks and use based on the USDA World Outlook Board report for August. Darrel Good's outlook August 15, 2005 >>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 + E-mail, print, search stories with ease Every story on StopSoybeanRust.com now has a link to let you pass on information with "E-mail a friend." 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