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Mississippi State University has hired Drew Gholson as an assistant professor and the irrigation specialist with the MSU Delta Research and Extension Center and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer Water Center. He began his new job April 1...

• By Tom Barber • Horseweed (marestail) has always been an issue at spring burndown prior to planting. In the early 2000’s, it became a much bigger problem in the southern United States by developing resistance to glyphosate (Roundup). Horseweed can germinate...

• By Rachel Vann, Jim Dunphy, Lindsey Thiessen, and Michael Buffaloe • https://youtu.be/EybeHUAJnmo Various non-foliar yield enhancement products are available to North Carolina soybean producers. Profit margins are currently narrow for soybeans and much thought should go into the potential yield advantages...

• By Larry Stecker and Tom Mueller • With the off-target dicamba movement in recent years, Tennessee soybean growers asked my colleague, Dr. Tom Mueller, and me to vet some of the directions on the XtendiMax and Engenia labels. The goal...

Soybean varieties differ with respect to levels of tolerance or sensitivity to saflufenacil. Alabama Extension specialists have researched and recorded soybean varietal responses to saflufenacil applications for the past two years, in hopes of helping producers make informed decisions...

The value of Arkansas’ No. 1 crop fell by 15 percent in 2018 as the effects of an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China took hold through the summer. A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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 April...

The University of Tennessee is launching the Tennessee Top Bean Soybean Yield Contest this year for growers of irrigated and non-irrigated soybeans. Tennessee had a soybean yield contest in the 1990s, but it faded away some years ago, says Angela...

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Taviuim Plus VaporGrip Technology, a premix from Syngenta that contains dicamba and S-metolachlor. State registrations are pending. The premix can be used preplant, at planting and early post-emergence on Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans...

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 April...

Near a bridge that connects Issaquena and Sharkey counties, Waye Windham leaned toward the side of his boat and dipped a paddle down into flood water to gauge its depth. The water was too deep for the paddle to reach...

A soybean seed treatment provided a yield bump but did not show much effect on soybean cyst nematode egg counts in 2017 and 2018, according to data from the University of Missouri Strip Trial Program. As part of the trial,...

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...

Arkansas producers embrace cover crops to boost soil health, reduce erosion and maintain profitability. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Robby Bevis views his soil as a complex living web that has a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. When roots are absent, such...

Growers intend to plant 84.6 million acres in 2019, down 5 percent from the 89.1 million acres planted last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service Prospective Plantings Report released March 29. Compared with last year, planted acreage...