Due to the above average rainfall eastern Kentucky experienced in 2018, soybean farmers have experienced an unprecedented amount of soybean pod and seed diseases.  The increase in these diseases have not only lowered expected yields in these fields, but has also accounted for a significant price reduction at the elevator.  The loss in revenue from the 2018 weather pattern has many producers asking what they might expect from those same fields in 2019 as it relates to disease pressure.  Extension offices in Bath, Montgomery and Menifee Counties held a multi-county ag commodity night to address this question and other concerns farmers are having related to the excessively wet year.  Through direct contact with our specialists, our extension offices are meeting this challenge head on, and helping our producers develop a plan to manage around contaminated crop residues that may act as harborage for many of the diseases we saw this past season.  Through extensions efforts, our producers are better informed in what they might expect for 2019 and what steps they can take on the farm to improve their chances of avoiding yield losses and dockage that they are dealing with now.  Producers have a better understanding of how crop rotation, disease resistance and timely fungicide applications may reduce losses and increase profitability.  Extension was able to act early to address this issue.