Alabama just turned two more counties red today, based on finding Asian soybean rust for the first time in Clarke and Geneva counties last Friday.

Ed Sikora, professor and Extension plant pathologist at Auburn University, reported in the Alabama state commentary that the soybean rust detected September 9 in Geneva County in southeast Alabama was in a commercial soybean field that was at R5-R6 and disease severity was low.

In Clarke County in the southwest part of the state, rust severity also was low. The infected soybeans were in the sentinel plot in Clarke County and were R6-R7 soybeans.

“We also detected rust in a sixth commercial field in Baldwin County and in a second soybean sentinel plot in Elmore County,” Sikora said. “Rust was observed in both counties previously.”

Alabama now has detected soybean rust in 11 commercial soybean fields, 10 soybean sentinel plots and 4 kudzu patches in Alabama.

The national total of rust-infected counties is now 58 in these five states: Alabama, 15; Florida, 22; Georgia, 16; Mississippi, two; South Carolina, three.

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