Annual Soybean Disease and Insect Field Day kicks off in Milan

MILAN, Tenn. — The annual Soybean Disease and Insect Field Day kicked off earlier Tuesday.

The event, hosted by the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture at the AgResearch and Education Center at Milan, shares the latest disease and insect management strategies for row crop producers.

The free event provided attendees with hands-on experience identifying soybean diseases that could impact yield, including frogeye leaf spot, target spot, septoria brown spot and others.

“It’s a little mix of everything because first, you really need to know what you’re dealing with, so a lot of it is identification. Make sure you know what is plaguing your plants – what is robbing your yield. And then once you truly know what it is, then we’re going to go into what options you have,” said Heather Kelly, Field crops plant pathologist for UT Extension.

Additional topics include results from UT variety trials and ongoing research on fungicide effectiveness, pesticide selection, crop defoliation and more.

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