This invasive pest requires control nearly up until harvest, which makes it expensive and time consuming to manage.

With SDS starting to surface in the Midwest, now is a good time to revisit some common misperceptions about the damaging soybean disease.

The most recent work has highlighted microbial warriors in the soil that suppress Sudden Death Syndrome in soybeans.

The conservative estimate nudged production down to 14.2 billion bushels, still well above pre-report expectations. Soybean crop estimates were increased to 49.4 bpa yield and 4.4-billion-bushel production.

Widely varying crop conditions, tough weeds, volatile markets and dicamba drift are on the mind of farmers as August begins.

In this week's Crop Tech Corner, researchers dig into bacterial leaf streak of corn, a new disease-resistance corn gene and oil-producing sorghum.

Remember the Golden Rule, and think of your neighbor when it comes time to control volunteer wheat this year.

Between southern corn rust, pyrethroid-resistant soybean aphids and a recovering rootworm population, Midwest growers have plenty to scout for this week.

Low yields and fewer acres are expected as scouts fan out across the Northern Plains next week to examine the spring wheat and durum crop.

The disease is in the Midwest in plenty of time to do economic damage to cornfields, particularly late-planted ones.

Southern growers should be prepared to scout and spray most varieties of Bt cotton, including Bollgard II, WideStrike and TwinLink.

Agrisure Duracade will continue to be sold under stewardship agreements in 2018, even after Chinese import approvals came through Monday morning.

The Kansas State findings raise concerns about the widespread use of fungicide seed treatments and the risk of fungicide resistance.

Remember that the Cry1F (Herculex) Bt trait won't necessarily protect your corn from damage, particularly in Nebraska and the Great Lakes region.

Early season damage may leave yield untouched, but larger doses of dicamba and bigger beans spell near-certain yield loss, studies show.

Low wheat protein levels for the second year in a row will create problems for end users such as flour mills.

Sorghum growers in Kansas and Oklahoma should start scouting, but light populations and good control options may give farmers the upper hand this year.

The outbreak of the disease, spread by grain curl mites, stems from poor volunteer wheat control last summer and a long, warm fall.

Growers are old hands at spotting soybean aphids and Japanese beetles, but bacterial leaf streak of corn is likely to be less familiar to most this year.

Deregulation, biotech acceptance and increasing exports were touted as priorities for the new Ag and Rural Prosperity Task Force. Budget cuts and immigration conflicts were less of a focus.

Restricted root systems from flooding or wet soils has left some corn plants ill equipped to handle the normal heat waves of summertime, agronomists noted.

China approved the 2,4-D-tolerant trait in Enlist corn plants, and hybrids will be available for the 2018 season. The Enlist soybean trait is still waiting on approval from China and the EU.

Watch for these corn diseases, nutrient deficiencies and standability issues in the coming months if your fields were submerged.

In this week's Crop Tech Corner, researchers document how pollen helped spread a resistant weed and suggest that plants may adapt to climate change better than expected.

Scout now for armyworms, black cutworms and slugs. Rootworm are also beginning to hatch and feeding will begin soon.

Planting a low-priced crop twice is taking its toll on growers' morale.

Know the steps to take if you see or suspect dicamba injury to your crop or property.

Industry continues to rally around a 2015 industry-sponsored study on the benefits of neonicotinoids while working to combat the problem of dust-off at planting.

Don't panic -- cold temperatures and medium- to heavy-textured soils have likely slowed the loss of nitrogen from leaching and denitrification this month.

Seed companies and farmers agree: This spring was crazy, and the replant requests streaming in across the Midwest prove it.

The study also questions the long-held assumption that corn growers see a yield benefit from neonicotinoid seed treatments.