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The Missouri Department of Agriculture has changed the 24(c) special local need labels for FexaPan, XtendiMax and Engenia dicamba herbicide formuatlions. The new cutoff date for Dunklin, Pemiscot, New Madrid, Stoddard, Scott, Mississippi, Butler, Ripley, Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties...

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

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...

By Patricia McDaniels — A third-generation farmer from Jackson, Tennessee, who manages more than 5,000 acres of row crops has been named the Tennessee Farmer of the Year by University of Tennessee Extension. Johnny Verell, who farms in partnership with his...

By Angus Catchot, Jeff Gore and Don Cook — In 2017, we were able to accurately predict the threat of redbanded stink bugs based on sampling ditch banks in the spring. Every year we sample ditch banks across the state to...

The University of Arkansas has partnered with FieldWatch to offer pesticide applicators working in row and field crops ways to identify herbicide-sensitive crops and beehives so they can adjust their spraying accordingly. CropCheck, an online platform developed by the non-profit...

House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas) has introduced the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, House Resolution 2 — known informally as the 2018 Farm Bill. In releasing the wide-sweeping legislative proposal April 12, Conaway said in a statement,...

To help promote water conservation, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission is offering financial incentives in the form of tax credits to state farmers and landowners who make land improvements. Among those are building surface water reservoirs, land leveling, converting from groundwater...

For the 10th year, Syngenta is sponsoring its Pest Patrol program, which provides pest alerts to growers and consultants who have signed up for the text messaging service. Growers and consultants also are able to access the same information...

Do you think you're a good water manager who can maximize water-use efficiency? If so, enter the University of Arkansas' 2018 Arkansas Rice and Row Crop Irrigation Yield Contest for rice, soy and corn producers. If you earn the top...

Auburn University entomologists have discovered a tiny wasp that could provide a huge benefit to soybean producers in Alabama and other Southern states plagued by the kudzu bug. Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid...

New multiple-resistant pigweed biotype proves hard to control, reinforces need to rotate effective herbicide modes of action. By Larry Steckel A survey sponsored by the Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board was conducted last summer to determine the percentage of fields that...

.danger {background-color: #E5E4E2;border-left: 6px solid #006600; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 2px;} Palmer amaranth, which has been dubbed a “super weed” by some, is definitely living up to its reputation. The weed already has documented resistance to six different modes of action:...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates growers nationwide plan to plant about 89 million acres of soybeans in 2018, down 1 percent from 2017, according to its Planting Intentions Report released March 29. This compares to estimated planted corn acres...

Chinese soybean imports from the United States could drop by as much 71 percent if China were to impose trade restrictions on U.S. soybeans in response to U.S. tariffs on Chinese products, according to a study for the U.S. Soybean...