Cercospora

Uh, but we, uh, do have some strong options now for foliar disease management.

Cercospora really likes wet leaves.

That allows the spores to germinate, uh, and then they'll invade into the leaf.

So if you want to see what leaf wetness is like in your local area, uh, log in and look at our weather stations, and each one has a leaf wetness sensor.

Beyond this summer's dry weather, Rachel didn't see anything too out of the ordinary when it comes to leaf diseases in insects this past season.

I probably maintained my Cercospora disease program a little too rigidly this year.

under the circumstances, but I didn't want that to be the reason that the crop turned out poorly.

And I did see, you know, a little bit of insect activity, but nothing that was, you know, devastating because what the drought has done.

Well, I mean, and there always is, Shelby, which w- I mean, um, currently this year, I mean, and I think those would be the, the three big diseases/issues out there is the sudden death, the white mold, and the IDC.

But just throwing, like you're asking for something a little unique, um, and I'm gonna go back a year, which we've never seen a lot of, but there was some areas that, uh, a disease called Cercospora, um-

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... really affected beans in certain geographies.

Um, I'm sort of, north of me, there's sort of a sugar beet area, and sugar beets always deal with Cercospora.

They're spraying, like, every other week almost, if not weekly, for this disease 'cause it will devastate that.

Well, it was so strong last year, we were actually seeing it sort of in that, uh, central Minnesota really affecting different soybean varieties.