With nearly one-half million acres planted to soybeans, soybeans are Virginia's largest acreage row crop and first in gross farm receipts (nearly $136 million). Asian soybean rust can reduce soybean yields by as much as 80% if left uncontrolled. There are currently no soybean varieties with acceptable levels of resistance to this disease. Therefore, fungicides are necessary for controlling Asian soybean rust at this time and the timing of fungicide application is critical to the control of this disease.

The mission of this website is to give Virginia soybean growers, agri-business workers, and other Virginia stakeholders easy access to information and forecasting information so that they can keep ahead of Asian soybean rust.