The planting season is almost here and getting an early jump on pathogen management starts with seed treatments. “Across most of the state right now in the region, we have plenty of soil moisture going into planting season, so I expect that we will have some seedling disease pressure,” says NDSU Extension Plant Pathologist Wade Webster. “To manage those seedling diseases, we unfortunately don’t have a lot of genetic resistance so, our varieties are generally susceptible to all of those except for phytophthora.”
