Episode 67, Dr. Horacio Lopez-Nicora, Soybean Disease Update

From Red Crown Rot to Brown Stem Rot to Sudden Death Syndrome, Ohio soybean farmers have their work cut out for them as they scout fields and attempt to identify the diseases causing stress to their crops. Dr. Horacio Lopez-Nicora, OSU Extension Soybean Pathologist and Nematologist visits with Dusty Sonnenberg to reviw the 2025 growing season and Ohio's first positive identification of Red Crown Rot in the state. Dr. Lopez-Nicora shares about the environmental conditions that favor disease, and what plant and leaf symptoms soybean growers should be on the look out for in 2026. They also discuss the reseach being done by OSU Extension into these diseases thanks to financial support from the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off.