Plan Ahead for Next Year

One of the benefits of the dry weather seen throughout most of the Northern Plains this harvest season was the low disease pressure for soybeans. “We didn’t see a lot of diseases showing up because we didn’t have any of that moisture in the latter half of the season,” said NDSU Extension Soybean Pathology Specialist Wade Webster. “All in all, it was a fairly uneventful harvest and very, very quick getting through everything.” It’s never too early to start preparing for next year. “It’s easy to forget everything that happened back in May and June with all of our seedling diseases and the flooding that we saw.” Webster asks growers to think back to that disease pressure and the management practices that could have alleviated them.