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Scouting Guidelines
Disease / Pest |
Growth stage to scout |
Best time to scout |
Best place to scout |
| Soybean Aphid Also look for ants and ladybird beetles. |
V1-2 . Scout two times per week during this time period. Continue scouting through pod set. | In early July, start scouting to become familiar with the aphid pressure in your fields. Use a hand lens or other magnifier. | V1-2: Under young upper leaves, petioles, and stem. Vn: new branches in the lower canopy. R1-R4: undersides of mid-canopy leaves and stems. |
| Bean leaf beetle | First-generation peak in late V or early R stage. Second-generation peak during pod-fill stage. |
Early July (first generation) August (second generation). |
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| Bean pod mottle virus | maturity | at harvest | check seed |
| Brown stem rot | full pod | late August | not specific |
| Grasshoppers | any stage | July through September | border rows near weedy or grassy areas |
| Green stem | maturity | at harvest | |
| Phytophthora root or stem rot | vegetative stages | July and August | Wet and waterlogged soils. Compacted soil. |
| Seedling blight Pythium or Fusarium | before V2 | late May or when soil temperatures are cold (<60°F) | low and wet spots |
| Seedling blight Phytophthora or Rhizoctonia | before V2 (late planted) |
mid-June or when soil temperatures warm to 70-80°F. | low and wet spots |
| Soybean Cyst Nematode | 6 weeks after planting up until 3 to 4 weeks before harvest. | Easier to observe on soybean roots early in the season. | A suspect area: a field entrance, areas that had flooded, weedy areas, lower yielding areas. |
| Soybean mosaic virus | maturity | at harvest | check seed |
| Spider Mites | any stage | July and August, especially during periods of drought | plants near the edges of the fields or where soybeans are stressed |
| Stem borer | late V, early R | mid-summer | Individual wilted or dying leaves in the middle of the canopy. Later in the season, look for lodged plants. |
| Sudden death syndrome | pod setting | after mid-August | high-moisture areas in fertile fields |
| White mold mushroom (apothecia) | at canopy closure | last week of June, 1st week of July, varies with row spacing |
high soil moisture areas, especially during flowering. Areas where moisture collects due to fogs, extended dew periods and pockets of poor air drainage. |
| White-mold- infested plants | pod setting | August-September | visibly dead plants |
| Soybean viruses | maturity | at harvest | check seed |
Sources
Plan your disease scouting
X.B. Yang, Iowa State University
Greg Tylka and John Hill, Iowa State University
Ken Ostlie, University of Minnesota
Craig Grau, University of Wisconsin
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