You spot a patch of dying soybeans from the road. They have yellowing on the leaves, and as you squint to get a better look, you silently confirm to yourself that it’s sudden death syndrome.
But what if it’s not? And now, you’ve written it off as another problem without addressing the true root cause.
“We’ve had a lot of folks who think they found sudden death syndrome, but they don’t get out to check,” said Steve Gauck, regional agronomy manager for Beck’s. “But in some of those cases, what they’re seeing is actually red crown rot.”…