Research at Michigan State University is using DNA testing in soil samples to determine a farmer’s risk of soybean diseases.

Plant pathologist Marty Chilvers tells Brownfield he’s currently working with sudden death syndrome and soybean cyst nematode.

“To then help in making that prediction of if farmers need to be using a resistant variety and layering on a seed treatment,” he says.

He says several years of studies have tried to narrow down when to use a seed treatment.

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