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Scout for soybean aphids in 2025
Farmers are encouraged to scout for soybean aphids the rest of the growing season.
Ron Geis with Corteva Agriscience says they were highly prevalent during the 2024 growing season.
“If you are out there scouting, you’re finding aphid pressures, and you’re finding the aphid pressures are building, then you can confidently put Ridgeback in with your foliar fungicide and have two to three weeks of extra residual protection on aphids.”
He tells Brownfield soybean aphids can cause double digit yield losses.
“When you start looking at 60 or 70 bushel soybeans, sacrificing 10 of those to aphids is a massive deal.”
Geis says visual signs of soybean aphid damage may include leaf puckering as well as reduced pod and seed counts.
INTERVIEW: Corteva’s Ron Geis
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