A free pocket-sized soybean rust ID card, published last year for soybean growers throughout the country, is now available in Spanish.

"Identifying Soybean Rust," funded through Ohio Soybean Council soybean check-off dollars and federal grants, is the result of a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and 22 land-grant universities, including Ohio State University Extension.

The photo-laden, color ID card outlines soybean rust symptoms and differences to similar-looking foliar diseases, such as bacterial blight, bacterial pustule, downy mildew, Frogeye leaf spot and brown spot.

"Identifying Soybean Rust," is just one of several soybean rust resources available to growers for the 2006 growing season. Both English and Spanish versions of the ID card can be obtained by contacting Ohio State University research and Extension plant pathologist Anne Dorrance at (330) 202-3560, or e-mail dorrance.1@osu.edu.