Weekly Update 07.18.24
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has been researching the emerging soybean disease known as red crown rot (RCR) by trying to characterize the diversity of RCR pathogen isolates across Illinois. If you suspect your crops are affected by RCR and want confirmation, you can support this research by sending diseased samples to the USDA-ARS lab in Urbana free of charge.