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• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas corn and soybean growers are expected to increase the amount they plant modestly this season, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent Planting Intentions Report. Corn acreage grew a modest 4% over 2019 planting...

Weather always plays a role in the spring planting decisions of Mississippi row-crop producers, but the market impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is another variable they will have to consider in 2020. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Prospective Plantings...

Let’s rap about Dectes stem borer in soybeans • By Scott Stewart • Over the years and several times in the last month, I’ve had folks tell me how bad Dectes stem borer hurt their soybean yields. Almost without exception, they...

U.S. soybean producers say they plan to plant 83.5 million acres this season, up 10% from 2019. But this year's planting intentions are still far behind the 89.1 million acres growers said they planned to plant in 2018. Compared with...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has registered Alite 27 herbicide, the only HPPD herbicide that can be used on LibertyLink GT27 soybeans. The registration is for use in select counties across Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota and Tennessee,...

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 March...

• By Larry Steckel • In 2019, we ran calls on about 40 fields where producers were disappointed with their Palmer amaranth control from applications of Engenia or XtendiMax. We collected Palmer amaranth seed last fall from 22 of these...

• By Bruce Schultz • Planting is underway or about to start for most crops in Louisiana, and farmers are watching the markets closely as the world economy reels from the fallout created by the novel coronavirus. Louisiana State University AgCenter...

• By Drew Gholson and Dan Roach • Here it is almost late March and wet again. We noticed some field work and corn planting south of Highway 82 yesterday. I’m sure irrigation is the last thing on most folks'...

Lentils, dry peas, chickpeas, soybeans and sunflowers have been added to the label for Anthem Flex herbicide from FMC. Labeled for preplant and preemergence applications in those crops, the herbicide provides strong residual control of grasses and smallseeded broadleaf weeds...

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 March 20,...

• By Larry Steckel • Rain, rain, rain! We are behind the burndown pace of most Tennessee springs where at least some would have burndown applications applied by this time. This has resulted in a flurry of calls on options. The...

Fertilizer recommendations are constantly examined and rarely modified, but change came this year after Mississippi State University research demonstrated higher potassium recommendations increase soybean yields. Larry Oldham, soil specialist with the MSU Extension Service, said the MSU Soil Testing Laboratory...

• By Angus Catchot, Whitney Crow, Don Cook and Jeff Gore • We have been getting some questions about what to expect this upcoming season with redbanded stink bugs in soybean. While we have had a few freezes and cold...

The soy checkoff honored George Martin of Nebo, Kentucky, with the 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest recognition bestowed by the United Soybean Board. During his lifetime, Martin dedicated more than 18 years of collective service to the soybean...