Brown Stem Rot and Sudden Death Syndrome are causing serious economic losses in soybeans. University 
of Minnesota Extension Crop Disease Specialist Dean Malvick made that point at the Best of the Best in Wheat and Soybean Research event. “Sudden Death Syndrom is relatively new to the state, 20 years in Minnesota and 2018 was the first year for it in North Dakota,” said Malvick. “Brown Stem Rot is hidden in some ways; we don’t always see it, yet it can take the top of the yield by five, ten, 15 percent and you don’t even know it is there.” Malvick said there were issues with both diseases this past year “and there was confusion in fields as to which was which.” Malvick was part of the Best of the Best meetings in Grand Forks and Moorhead.
