| Reports from the road |
| • After the trip: Impressions of South America >> |
| • Rust, late planting to cut Mato Grosso soy yields >> |
| • Light disease pressure, favorable weather for Uruguay soybeans >> |
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Crop consultant Laura Karlen is traveling throughout South America, reporting on crop conditions and other news. She'll be checking in from the following locations: |
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Laura Karlen, a crop consultant from Algona, Iowa, is traveling through major soybean-growing regions of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, as a special correspondent for Agriculture Online. She will provide weekly crop condition progress reports from the road. Karlen spent time last year in Argentina and Uruguay studying Asian soybean rust. She has also worked with Dr. Michael McNeill, an Iowa agronomist, to set up state labs to diagnose farmers' soybean samples for diseases. |
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