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Bayer decides not to fight EPA over Belt insecticide

Bayer officials have decided not to fight the Environmental Protection Agency over the registration cancellation of flubendiamide insecticide. In a statement Wednesday, the company said it was too risky to appeal the case. The insecticide is marketed by Bayer as Belt...

Arkansas soybean yield records continue to fall

Despite challenging conditions this season, a handful of Arkansas farmers have topped the 100-bushel threshold, with two of them breaking the standing state record within a week of each other. They are participants in Arkansas' Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge. “I’m...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 30, 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 Sept....

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

EPA registers new insect growth regulator

Tampa, Fla.-based Helm Agro US recently received Environmental Protection Agency Section 3 registration for its insecticide/miticide Diflumax 2L. The product, an insect growth regulator, contains the active ingredient diflubenzuron. It blocks the production of chitin, which is used to build...

Georgia grower sets new soybean record of 171.8 bushels/acre

Randy Dowdy, owner of Randy Dowdy Farms in Pavo, Ga., not just set a new world soybean production record this year but blew it out of the water with 171.9 bushels per acre. The previous record of 160.6 bushels per...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 9, 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 Sept....

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 2, 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 Sept....

Louisiana soybean, rice producers reel from flooding

Many Louisiana rice and soybean producers were looking at decent crops before torrential rains in August flooded many fields and created mud bogs in others. Kurt Guidry, an agricultural economist with Louisiana State University's AgCenter, puts initial flood losses to...

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...

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