A pest is causing late-season damage that could hurt soybean yield. MFA District Sales Manager Jason Greenfield showed Brownfield where the Dectes stem borer had eaten vertically through soybean stems just ahead of combining in southeast Missouri. “The only way to beat Dectes stem borer is a timely harvest,” said Greenfield, breaking open a soybean stem to reveal a Dectes larva in its stalk.
“If you let those beans stay out there too long those plants will start to break over and fall over,” Greenfield told Brownfield Ag News at the edge of a soybean field near Naylor, Missouri.
