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LSU AgCenter Preparing For Asian Soybean Rust Again This Season LSU AgCenter experts are preparing to monitor for Asian soybean rust in Louisiana this year as the fungus threatens to enter the state from a new direction – the west. The rust disease, which is spread by windborne spores, is feared because it’s hard to detect until it’s too late to do anything to stop it. [Image: soybean rust]Brazilian Soybean Rust Expert Says Check Fields Often; Hurricane Could Blow In More Disease Spores The trouble with Asian soybean rust, the disease most feared by soybean farmers, is that the spores that cause it can blow into a field from anywhere, anytime. And Hurricane Dennis could bring in a new wave from South America. 1