Iowa agricultural officials are urging farmers not to panic following the discovery of Asian soybean rust research plots owned by Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. "There is no cause for ...

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University scientists are piecing together clues about how a global pest hacks the immune systems of soybeans. Soybean rust fungus poses one of the biggest threats to soybean ...

The first U.S. cases of soybean rust, a fungus that hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production, were found at two research sites in Louisiana, officials said Wednesday. The fungus is ...

Mother Nature can be your friend or foe. For a lot of farmers, she was the latter this past winter. One benefit of the brutally cold weather, though, is that researchers found little evidence of ...

Looking for a silver lining in 2011 weather patterns? It might be more of a thread than a lining, but soybean rust didn’t like last year’s weather. Daren Mueller, Iowa State University plant ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- Government and industry spent millions of dollars last winter to prepare farmers for the scourge of soybean rust, a yield-robbing fungus that could cost them thousands of extra ...

URBANA, Ill. -- Scientists have been watching the invader for more than 30 years, powerless to stop its movement around the globe. Carried by the wind, it attaches itself to the leaves of soybean ...

Soy biodiesel, insect and weed management, and new production systems were all topics at the Missouri Soybean Association meeting Thursday in Jackson, but that wasn't why most soybean farmers showed ...

Illinois agriculture officials confirmed the state's first-ever case of Asian soybean rust Friday, but say the yield-robbing disease will not affect this year's crop and perhaps not next year's either ...

URBANA, Ill. - Researchers are developing a tool that could give American farmers early warning of the approach of soybean rust, a relentless disease farmers worry could destroy soybean crops if it ...

Armed with a tiny magnifying lens bouncing around his neck, Jim Walker stops and squats in green blankets of kudzu searching for a deadly pest hiding in central Florida. Walker works as a state plant ...