Soy biodiesel, insect and weed management, and new production systems were all topics at the Missouri Soybean Association meeting Thursday in Jackson, but that wasn't why most soybean farmers showed ...

FRAIJANES, Guatemala – For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, ...

A parasitic form of fungus with origins in Brazil has soybean growers anticipating this years crop cautiously. Word of the fungis migration to United States soil, possibly hitching a ride on Hurricane ...

Iowa agricultural officials are urging farmers not to panic following the discovery of Asian soybean rust research plots owned by Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. "There is no cause for ...

Now, in a state already hard hit by the impacts of climate change, farmers, scientists, and lawmakers are scrambling to prepare for the onset of rust. And although no one can predict just how much ...

GLENCOE, Minn. -- Geir Friisoe is the guy to turn to for the facts on soybean rust. The U.S. Department of Agriculture called Friisoe -- a plant disease expert at the Minnesota Department of ...

Coffee rust, la roya in Spanish, showed up for the first time in Central America in the 1970s. But this epidemic, which began in late 2012, is by far the worst the region has seen. January is usually ...

Central American coffee farmers are facing off against a deadly fungus that has wiped out thousands of acres of crops. Coffee companies like... Rust Devastates Guatemala's Prime Coffee Crop And Its ...

The same rain that has caused rivers to flood and roads to close in recent weeks also has created a wheat rust problem for farmers in Weld County and around the region. Wheat rust, a fungal disease ...

Outside the northern Guatemalan town of Olopa, near the Honduran border, farmer Edwin Fernando Diaz Viera stands in the middle of his tiny coffee field. He says it was his lifelong dream to own a farm ...