This project is designed to be a first alert system for the presence of soybean rust to advise Tennessee soybean producers when fungicide applications are necessary and unnecessary to manage yield loss from soybean rust. The project has expanded to include monitoring for other Soybean Diseases and pests, including QoI/strobilurin fungicide resistant Cercospora sojina, the causal agent of frogeye leaf spot and invasive insects such as the kudzu bug. The statewide soybean sentinel plot program provides valuable information throughout the growing season on the presence of potentially destructive Soybean Diseases such as soybean rust, which is very influential when determining if fungicide applications...