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University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 14, 2018

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 Sept....

RISER irrigation program helps boost water-use efficiency

Before adopting RISER techniques on his farm, irrigating was the part of the growing season Clark Carter always dreaded. “We would string out plastic pipe, punch holes in it every couple of feet, and hook it up, only to see...

Missouri Fisher Delta Research Center field day draws large crowd

A great crowd gathered for the 57th Fisher Delta Research Center field day, which focused on “Guiding the Future of Delta Agriculture.” Attendees packed the tour wagons to hear presentations on the soybean, cotton and rice research. “Our researchers work tirelessly...

Arkansas researchers begin trial with ‘seed destructor’

For decades, the fight against weeds in Arkansas agriculture —barnyardgrass and Palmer amaranth, in particular — has been an ongoing war of attrition as weed populations gradually acquire resistance to one herbicidal chemistry after another. During this time, weed scientists...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 31, 2018

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 Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 24, 2018

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....

Sudden death syndrome observed in North Carolina soybeans

 • By Dr. Lindsey Thiessen • Soybeans submitted through the Plant Disease and Insect Clinic have been confirmed to have the causal agent of sudden death syndrome, Fusarium virguliforme (syn. Fusarium solani f. sp. glycines). This disease is not annually a...

Nufarm plans new manufacturing plant for Greenville, Mississippi

Nufarm Americas Inc. plans to expand its North American manufacturing operations with a new facility in Greenville, Mississippi, designed to support its growing herbicide and cotton portfolios. The Australian-owned company selected a 16-acre site after an extensive review of locations...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 17, 2018

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. 17,...

EPA registers new Syngenta seed treatment premix

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Syngenta's Vibrance Trio seed treatment, which contains a three-fungicide premix. The treatment targets a host of diseases during the early season, including Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Pythium, Fusarium, seedborne Phomopsis and seedborne Sclerotinia. The active ingredients are mefenoxam, fludioxonil...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Aug. 10, 2018

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....

LSU economists see strong demand for state’s soybeans

Worldwide demand for U.S. soybeans remains strong in the midst of a trade war, and China still needs America’s soybeans, according to an Louisiana State University AgCenter report on trade tensions with China. “There are, as yet, no signs of...

Threecornered alfalfa hoppers spark calls about thresholds

Over the past week, Sebe Brown, Louisiana State University AgCenter Extension antomologist, has received a number of phone calls about the economic thresholds  for threecornered alfalfa hoppers (TCAH) in soybean. He addressed those questions in this LSU AgCenter column. Based on...

Early GPS adopter to represent Mississippi at Sunbelt Expo

Lonnie Fortner, a producer of cotton, corn, soybeans and peanuts in Claiborne County, will represent Mississippi in the 2018 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year contest. As an early adopter of precision agriculture technology in southwest Mississippi, Fortner...

Researchers work to unravel the mysteries of taproot decline

Superb sleuthing among plant pathologists in three states helped track down the culprit whose symptoms include soybean seedling death, yellow leaves and lower yields. Taproot decline, a disease first noticed in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 2007 and formally identified...

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