Frosted

Many farmers in the Red River Valley were able to get soybeans in the ground early this spring. According to NDSU Extension Soybean Pathology Specialist Wade Webster, many of those soybeans suffered some frost damage. “There has been some curiosity about whether those were seedling diseases starting to develop, but in almost every case, there was frost damage on the cotyledons, so the plants are not dead yet.” Webster says that early rains have increased the risk of seedling disease in those soybeans. “I’m fully expecting a lot of seedling diseases this spring just because of that moisture that’s sitting in the ground.”