Rio Grande do Sul expands soybean rust monitoring to 100 collectors
State agencies Seapi and Emater/RS-Ascar added collectors to the Monitora Ferrugem RS network for the 2026/27 soybean season. Rio Grande do Sul has 100 collectors, including 11 in the Santa Rosa region, with samples scheduled for weekly laboratory analysis.
Event / data period: 2026-10-05
Published: · Updated:
The Monitora Ferrugem RS programme, coordinated by Rio Grande do Sul’s agriculture department Seapi and Emater/RS-Ascar, is using new spore collectors for the 2026/27 soybean season. The state has 100 collectors, 11 of them across 11 municipalities in the Santa Rosa administrative region. The network tracks spores of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the fungus that causes Asian soybean rust.
The first slides were installed on October 5 and are due to be replaced every Monday for analysis by partner laboratories, with sampling scheduled through March 8, 2027. The programme will also use artificial intelligence to assist spore identification and plans to send results to producers by mobile phone. More than 784,500 hectares of soybeans are expected in the Santa Rosa region; this is a regional area outlook, not a statewide production forecast.
Data
Rio Grande do Sul soybean rust monitoring network
Spore-collector network, sampling schedule and Santa Rosa region plan for the 2026/27 season.
- Spore collectors across Rio Grande do Sul
- 100 count
- 2026-10-14 · Observed
- Spore collectors in the Santa Rosa region
- 11 count
- 2026-10-14 · Observed
- Forecast soybean area in the Santa Rosa region for 2026/27
- ≥784,500 hectares
- 2026-10-14 · Forecast
Methodology
Collector counts reported by Seapi and Emater/RS-Ascar are the administrative network status reported on October 14 for the 2026/27 monitoring season; they are not disease prevalence or a disease forecast. The Santa Rosa area is the source’s regional planting-area forecast for the 2026/27 season. Slides from collectors are sent for weekly laboratory analysis.
Updated:
Subjects and places
Subject proposals
- AgricultureSuggested
- Preserved editorial category/topic; broad candidate onlywww.agricultura.rs.gov.br ↗
Geographic references
Only source-provided geographic references are shown. Opening an external map is optional. Optional story maps use OpenStreetMap. Opening a map sends your IP address and this site’s address to the map provider; location data remains readable as text without loading the map.
- Brazil · Place role: Coverage · Place type: Country or area · Location precision: RegionalEvidence
- Explicit preserved editorial country/region; no city or national centroid inferredwww.agricultura.rs.gov.br ↗