Growers in the Upper Midwest are learning how to better manage a plant disease that cut some soybean yields in half during 2017.
University of Minnesota plant pathologist Dr. Dean Malvick says weather contributed to widespread white mold problems across southern Minnesota last year.
“This disease really prefers and does best under cool, wet conditions after the soybeans start flowering. So if we have cool and wet conditions from mid to late July into the middle of August, those are ideal conditions for the disease.
Continue reading A plan for dealing with white mold at Brownfield Ag News.
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