August 9, 2006

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RUST FORECASTS

  • USDA SBR Forecast 8/7/2006: USDA has expanded its forecasts to include weather and rust-transport risk area predictions out 1-2 days and out 3-5 days. For today (8/9), it says "No change is expected in risk areas since there are no significant developments in deposition or chances of survival." For 8/10-12: "Risk is expected to increase for neighboring counties in southern GA, southern AL and FL as a result of the prolonged precipitation and flow from the south and southwest."
  • NAPDFC forecast 8/7/2006: Due to mixed transport conditions, long-range threat low. Weakly Moderate Risk to susceptible plants in central and southern LA, southern MS, southern AL, southern GA and FL Monday and Tuesday. New forecast due later today (8/9).


  • See our SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER for updated forecasts and tropical weather information.
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    NEW THIS WEEK

  • ALERT: Georgia confirms soybean rust on soybeans in Tift County
    Georgia officials confirmed Asian soybean rust Monday, Aug. 7, on leaves taken from Group IV soybeans growing in an industry research field near Chula in Tift County. Tift is 29th rust county in U.S. and the sixth and northernmost in GA in 2006.
    Full story.


  • NOAA update still calls for above-normal hurricane season
    Experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration yesterday (8/8) reiterated their prediction for an above-normal number of Atlantic storms, albeit with slightly fewer storms than predicted in May.
    Full story.


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    Latest USDA Soybean Rust Observation Maps 8/8/2006.
    Red counties are positive for rust at the moment, 25 in U.S. with latest in Tift County, GA. Red-hatch counties are rust confirmed/destroyed=1. Total positive county count in 2006 is 29.














    Good of IL: Waiting for the crop production report
    As the markets await the Aug. 11 release of the USDA's first corn and soybean yield and production forecast for the 2006 crops, University of Illinois economist Darrel Good says many farmers may store new-crop corn, but the soybean situation is more complicated.
    Full story.

    Early harvest results show low yields for dryland Delta soybeans
    Soybean farmers are finding disappointing yields in the Delta -- the worst in years for some, according to a photo tour of early harvest posted late last week on Agriculture Online.
    Full story.

    Colo. State hurricane team reduces 2006 forecast for still-active season
    The Colorado State University hurricane forecast team issued a report last Friday (in advance of the NOAA update), also reducing the number of storms expected to form in the Atlantic basin this season.
    Full story.

    Crop Progress week ending 8/6:
    USDA says 93 percent of soybeans are blooming, slightly behind last year (95). Seventy-two percent setting pods. Condition of U.S. soybeans held steady in all categories, with 53 percent good/excellent again this week; 30 percent fair; and 17 percent in poor/very poor shape.
    Full story.
    RUST RESOURCES


    + New 8/7/2006 in "Ask the Experts": Read what a southern Indiana grower is told in answer to his concerns about when to spray for soybean rust. We also have the view from Pennsylvania on this year's rust situation. Send in your questions so we can help find the answers.


    + SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER
    Visit our SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER -- updated daily tracking new rust finds, tropical weather reports and maps, USDA and NAPDFC forecasts and commentary and other timely information.

    + Our StopSoybeanRust Running Tally of 2006 Rust Finds gives you a quick rundown of when and where rust has been found this year.

    + Our SOYBEAN APHID WATCH page gives latest USDA aphid observation map and a quick snapshot of all soybean aphid sighting reports from state specialists as reported on www.sbrusa.net and University Web sites.

    + MAPS
  • Updated animation for 2006 showing progression of soybean rust via U.S. rust observation map changes, day-by-day, for all of 2005 and up through Aug. 2, 2006.
  • Side-by-side comparison of '05 and '06 rust spread in U.S., through Aug. 3, 2006. Both animations are from Penn State's Computational Epidemiology and Aerobiology Lab.

    • Full program online for upcoming 2006 National Soybean Rust Symposium
    Details of the technical program planned for the 2006 National Soybean Rust Symposium Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 2006, in St. Louis are now available online.
    Full story.


    + National and state rust hotlines and forecasts
  • USDA now is supplying expanded forecasts for the Southeast, reporting on current weather conditions, and then forecasting weather and rust risk out 1-2 days and out 3-5 days.
  • The North American Plant Disease Forecast Center (NAPDFC) gives soybean rust forecasts Mon., Wed. and Fri., based on five potential source areas.
  • Alabama: Auburn University Soybean Rust Hotline for weekly updates is 1-800-446-0388.
  • Florida rust hotline toll-free nationwide at 1-866-361-9942
  • Mississippi hotline for soybean rust at 1-800-516-0865, sponsored by BASF and the Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board.
  • Tennessee hotline for soybean rust at 1-877-875-2326.
  • Kentucky now updating its hotline daily at 1-888-321-6771.
  • See our Soybean Rust Hotline List in the SOYBEAN RUST TRACKING CENTER.

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