Cold temps give soybeans a reprieve
By Paul Wood
Saturday October 14, 2006
URBANA – Soybean rust was brought to North America on the winds of Hurricane Ivan. Cold weather stopped it this week in Southern Illinois.
Illinois agriculture officials confirmed soybean rust from a Pope County leaf sample Friday, the first ever in the state. Later that day, the USDA also confirmed a Massac County sample. Both are in extreme southern Illinois.
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