Crop Lookout

How to Use Crop Lookout

Crop Lookout is an interactive, real-time mapping tool that tracks emerging crop issues across the United States and Canada. Powered by a network of university Extension specialists, researchers, and agricultural professionals, this map visualizes reports of diseases, pests, and abiotic challenges as they develop throughout the growing season.

By bringing together verified field observations and aggregated data from trusted sources, Crop Lookout helps farmers, agronomists, and industry professionals stay informed about what’s happening beyond their own fields. Users can explore issues by crop, region, and timeframe—gaining valuable context to support timely, research-based decision-making and proactive crop management.

Crop Lookout is designed to provide a high-level, real-time snapshot of emerging crop issues across the United States and Canada. It is intended to help users quickly identify trends and stay aware of developing concerns during the current growing season.

This tool should not be used as a substitute for long-term or historical disease and pest tracking resources. Certain issues—such as soybean cyst nematode, Reniform nematode, southern root-knot nematode, and red crown rot—are typically persistent once established in a region and may not be consistently represented on this map year to year.

For comprehensive, long-term insights into these and other established issues, we encourage users to explore our issue-specific maps, which provide more complete historical data and regional context.