Georgia finds soybean rust in Tift County industry research field

Doane Agricultural Services posted the following item on our content site this afternoon:

Georgia officials report that Asian soybean rust was confirmed today on leaves taken from Group IV soybeans growing in an industry research field near Chula in Tift County.

Tift becomes the 29th county in the U.S. with soybean rust, and the sixth (and northernmost) in Georgia this year. The positive counties are Brooks, Decatur, Miller and Tift, with Grady and Thomas no longer red on the USDA map after infected plants were destroyed and no more rust found. It is the ninth U.S. county in five states with rust on this season's soybeans.

This is the first rust this year in Tift County, which had positive rust finds in three places last year, the earliest being samples pulled from a sentinel plot at Tifton on July 15, 2006.

Here is the text of the Georgia commentary on www.sbrusa.net:

"Rust was confirmed today on group IV soybeans growing on a industry research farm in Chula, Ga. Chula is located in Tift County in southcentral GA. This is the first rust find in that county. A small leaf sample (<10 href="http://www.sbrusa.net/">www.sbrusa.net as reported on www.StopSoybeanRust.com.

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