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University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 16, 2016

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 Aug....

Bayer commits to Southern soybeans with new breeding stations

A relative newcomer to soybean development, Bayer has reconfirmed its commitment to the Mid-South industry with the recent completion of a new soybean breeding station near Marion, Ark. The Marion facility joins the Soybean Breeding and Trait Development Station Bayer completed...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 12, 2016

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 Aug....

University of Arkansas dedicates new foundation seed plant

Flanked by members of Arkansas'  rice, soybean and wheat promotion boards, officials with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture dedicated a new foundation seed processing plant, Aug. 9, outside of Stuttgart. The state-of-the-art plant, which was built on university property...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 5, 2016

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 Aug....

Appeals board sides with EPA, cancels Belt insecticide registration

An Environmental Protection Agency appeals board has upheld the agency’s decision to cancel registration of Belt insecticide from Bayer CropScience, but it will let growers use existing stocks. Belt, which contains the active ingredient flubendiamide, is labeled to control lepidopteran...

Webcast examines complexities of data collection, prescriptive farming

The Plant Management Network has launched a new "Focus on Soybean" webcast that examines the complexities of data collection and prescriptive farming methods. Narrated by Dr. John Fulton, an associate professor in Ohio State University's Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering...

Off-label dicamba use spurs drift injury and complaints

Heading into this season, Extension weed specialists were concerned about Environmental Protection Agency registrations not keeping pace with herbicide-resistant traits. Their worries, in particular, focused on Xtend soybeans and cotton from Monsanto, which have been genetically modified to resist...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, July 8, 2016

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 July...

Arkansas soybean group challenges producers to ‘Grow for the Green’

Think you have what it takes to "Grow for the Green"? The Arkansas Soybean Commission is encouraging Arkansas soybean producers who have yields of 60 bushels per acre or greater to enter its 2016 yield contest. First place in each of...

DuPont inks multi-year supply deal with Monsanto for dicamba

Monsanto Co. and DuPont signed a multi-year dicamba supply agreement for the United States and Canada. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. St. Louis-based Monsanto has invested more than $1 billion in a dicamba production facility in Luling, La.,...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, July 1, 2016

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 July...

Soybean South editor nabs writing award

Vicky Boyd, editor of Soybean South and Rice Farming and managing editor of Cotton Farming magazines, took top honors in Fresno County (Calif.) Farm Bureau's 22nd Annual Journalism Awards, Farm Trade Print category. Boyd wrote about how California's drought and environmental water...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, June 10, 2016

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...

Bayer teams with satellite imaging firm to develop new applications

Monheim, Germany-based Bayer AG and Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop applications based on satellite imaging. Bayer plans to purchase the data from aerospace technology provider Planetary Resources to create new agricultural products and...

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