St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
July 5, 2013
The generally-agreed-upon treatment threshold for soybean aphid is 250 aphids per plant. But with soybean values running so high, do these recommendations still apply?
This presentation will help consultants, growers, and other practitioners in and around the North Central region to address the question of whether the economic threshold for treatment of soybean aphid should be lowered or not in light of current high crop values.
This presentation will also help viewers will learn more about…
- The difference between an economic injury level and an economic threshold
- How the original soybean aphid threshold recommendations were determined
- How the information from those studies relates to current threshold recommendations
This 20-minute presentation is open access through September 30, 2013. Viewers can also opt to see a 5-minute executive summary version of this presentation. This shorter executive summary version is permanently open access courtesy of the United Soybean Board.
Other Focus on Soybean presentations can be viewed at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/fos.
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