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ALERT: First commercial field with rust in GA, Appling County
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8/24/2005 7:45 a.m. CDT -- Georgia is reporting its first soybean rust confirmed in commercial field today: five infected leaves out of 100 pulled August 18 in Appling County.
Bob Kemerait, assistant professor and Extension specialist at the University of Georgia, turned the county red this morning on www.sbrusa.net after confirmation on August 22. He said the field was in growth stage R3-R4.
Yesterday, soybean rust was also found for the first time in sentinel plots at the Rural Development Center in Tifton, GA, Kemerait said. Rust was found both in the MG IV and MG VII soybeans. The growth stage of the MG VII soybeans is R3. Rust was first discovered in Georgia on July 18 in other Tifton County sentinel plots and later in two other locations in the county.
Appling County, the tenth Georgia county with rust now, is in the central part of southeastern Georgia.
Source: Georgia state commentary on www.sbrusa.net.
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