APS REGULATORY ALERT

A Case Study of USDA's Soybean Rust Coordinated Framework
Date: April 20, 2006

"The value of Plant Disease Early-Warning Systems: A Case Study of USDA's Soybean Rust Coordinated Framework" is a case study released on April 3 by the USDA Economic Research Service. It notes that the framework's information is valuable to farmers even in a year with a low rust infection like that of 2005. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR18/