By now, your soybeans should be in the ground — and hopefully on a good growth trajectory. But even though your crop might look fine from behind the windshield of your truck, it’s important to scout your fields and dig up some roots to ensure your soybean plants are healthy. Early-season diseases such as Pythium, Phytopthora and Rhizoctonia could be lurking at or beneath the soil, undermining your crop’s success at harvest. Soybean seedling diseases usually cause plants to rot in the ground, grow poorly or die prematurely. Often, the roots themselves rot. On the stem at the soil [...]