On Friday, July 20 an event will be held near Maryville for all growers interested in soybean disease scouting.

The new state field crops pathologist Kaitlyn Bissonnette will be on hand with other University of Missouri and MU Extension experts to answer questions and lead demonstrations on soybean diseases at the 2018 Northwest Soybean Scouting School. The event begins at 8:30 am and will be located in a producer’s field at 27324 Katydid Road, Maryville. This location is one mile south of 136 on the east side of Maryville.

Topics will include proper soybean disease scouting, fungicide resistance management and many more. Although many common diseases are slow to appear this year, scouting efforts have found several yield-limiting diseases in fields including septoria brown spot, frogeye leaf spot and bacterial leaf blight. At this event attendees will learn the proper ways to identify and treat these diseases.

The 2018 scouting school is a free event hosted by the MU Certified Strip Trial Program and MU Extension, and is sponsored in part by the Missouri Soybean Association and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

For more information, contact regional agronomists Andy Luke at 660.425.6434 or Wayne Flanary at 660.446.3726.