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The Arkansas Feral Hog Eradication Task Force has established an anonymous reporting system to gauge just how many of the swine pests are in the state and how the current hog-removal efforts are faring. These easily accessible reporting forms are...

MS Technologies and Bayer have commercially launched LibertyLink GT27 soybeans, which are tolerant to Liberty, glyphosate and a new HPPD herbicide. The HPPD herbicide that will be paired with the new releases, Balance Bean, is pending Environmental Protection Agency approval. But...

China is following through on its threat to implement a 25-percent tariff on U.S. soybean imports, affecting not only the farmers who grow the crop but also the transportation sector that exports it. Half of the top 10 U.S. soybean-producing...

A tiny wasp — known as Paratelenomus saccharalis — is reducing kudzu bug populations and Georgia soybean farmers’ need to treat for the pest, says Michael Toews, a University of Georgia entomologist based on the UGA Tifton campus. The wasp,...

As of July 1, the Crop Production Services, or CPS, name will be no longer. In its place will be Nutrien Ag Solutions. The new brand name will align retail business across the globe and strengthen the company's long-term mission...

Fields across Arkansas seem to be sprouting solar panels as multiple growers take advantage of the one thing they can count on: the sun. Solar energy is catching on with Arkansas farmers, which is a trend that is very promising...

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 June...

A group of scientists recently reported a population of waterhemp in Missouri resistant to a record-breaking six herbicide modes of action. Their findings were recently published in the Weed Science Society of America's journal, Weed Science. The authors included Lovreet...

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 June...

The Environmental Protection Agency recently registered pydiflumetofen,  an SDHI fungicide  Syngenta plans to market under the Miravis label. State registrations are pending. The product, a member of the Fungicide Resistance Action Committee's Group 7, is labeled for use on corn,...

The Louisiana State University's AgCenter will hold a crop production and pest management field day expo, June 19, at the Tom H. Scott Research, Extension and Education Center in Winnsboro. The expo represents a new field day model intended to...

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 June 8,...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt joined more than 50 Mississippi farmers and landowners recently to announce two Gulf of Mexico Program grants totaling $2 million. He also toured Big River Farms and discussed pollinator health and water...

When Monheim, Germany-based Bayer closes its expected acquisition of Monsanto on June 7, the new company will drop the 117-year-old name Monsanto and will operate under the Bayer umbrella. The acquired products will retain their brand names and will become...

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 June...