Lyon County Extension and farmers have assisted University of Kentucky grain crops pathology and entomology researchers for two years. Participation has included two years of soybean cyst nematode sampling in five fields each year, two years of checking for other soybean nematodes, a check for corn nematodes in five fields, and two years of sampling of corn residue in three fields for a research project looking at the correlation of diseases in corn to surface residue. In addition, this spring five wheat fields were sampled for a wheat virus study. The agent planted 800 feet of sunflowers for a dectes stem borer study in soybeans last year and 200 feet this year with two of the fields planted in soybeans for 2 seasons. Results of nematode testing are shared with individual farmers. In addition, local farmers have allowed monitoring of invasive insects with traps place in fields for ten years or more. Early planted soybeans with emergence issues and cotyledons broken off were taken to the pathology lab this spring and two years ago. Part of the damage was determined to be related to group 14 herbicides with some slug damage.