Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, assistant professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas, ending May...
A sharper focus on the economic impact of the lower Delta backwater flood of 2019 helps predict the implications of continued flooding this year.
Mississippi State University Extension Service researchers compiled data on the overlooked costs of the backwater flood...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
When asked how soybean planting in his county had been going over the past week or two, Robert Goodson, agriculture agent for the Phillips County Cooperative Extension Service office, paused.
“What do you see in your...
Soybeans and cotton are popping up across South Carolina, and Clemson University Extension Service specialists say they are susceptible to hungry insect pests.
Soybean situation
About 6% of the state’s soybean crop had been planted as of May 8. In his...
Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, assistant professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas, ending May...
A group of Clemson University researchers have helped discover an important milestone in developing heat-tolerant soybeans — a discovery that could eventually aid growers of one of the top crash crops in South Carolina.
A paper about their study, "Comparative...
Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, assistant professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas, ending May...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
The results of some University of Tennessee Extension studies to determine why junglerice has become a major weed pest in Tennessee Xtend cotton and soybean acres have provided some insights. This research...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently registered Elevest insecticide from FMC Corp. for use on several crops, including cotton, soybeans, sweet corn, peanut and potatoes. The product is a premix of the full rate of Rynaxypyr — the brand...
The beginning of May brought a welcome sight for Mississippi producers: sunny skies and drying fields.
For the second straight year, precipitation levels well above normal in the winter and early spring have slowed planting significantly across much of Mississippi....
Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, assistant professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas, ending May...
In a profession where the average age is 58, you might call Jay Yeargin of Greenfield, Tennessee, an upstart. Yet, this 37-year-old has been farming for more than 16 years and is well known in the agricultural community.
This year...
As full-season soybean planting gets underway in Kentucky, Carrie Knott, University of Kentucky grain crops specialist, offers Kentucky producers some advice to help them get the crop off to a good start.
“We know that to maximize yields of full-season...
• By Fred Miller •
Potassium, or potash, is an important nutrient for Arkansas’ major row crops, and a deficiency of it can significantly reduce yields at harvest.
A video, “Potassium Deficiency in Row Crops” from the University of Arkansas System...
• By Jeff Gore, Angus Catchot, Don Cook and Whitney Crow•
The 2019 season was one of the most challenging years we have had from a bollworm standpoint in both cotton and soybeans. The issue was not from a numbers...
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