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University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, June 11, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending June 11,...

Soil management immediately after the flood

• By Larry Oldham • Flooding is challenging Mississippi families, homes and farms again, hence, this should be a review for many readers. The first Mississippi Crop Situation post about flooded soils was published in May 2011. There is more experience...

Insect control key to successful double-crop soybean management

Insect control will play a major role in the management of double-crop soybeans after wheat harvest is completed, said an Oklahoma State University Extension expert. Experienced farmers know soybeans planted after wheat are vulnerable to several insect pests, but most...

Managing dicamba- or Enlist One-resistant Palmer amaranth

• By Larry Steckel, Clay Perkins and Delaney Foster • Judging from research tests and walking a few farmers’ fields, many of the preemergence-applied herbicides in soybeans and cotton played out about a week or so ago. Timing is everything...

Soybeans: planting progress, double crop and late-planting considerations

• By Angela McClure • The June 6 Tennessee crop progress report indicated over seventy percent (72%) of our soybean crop was in the ground, which is an improvement over the past few years. However, wheat dry down and double crop...

Maximizing returns from double-cropped soybeans

Double cropping is a practice where farmers harvest one crop, and then plant and harvest a second crop in the same field – all within the same year. It allows farmers to make the most out of the limited...

Protect soybean yield potential after slow and rainy planting season

• By David Moseley and Md Rasel Parvej • The progress of 2021 soybean planting season has been behind the five-year average from the beginning due to weekly heavy rains throughout the state. The optimum soybean planting window is suggested...

Watch what you tankmix with dicamba, particularly if spraying for grasses

In 2020 we began seeing several cases where summer grass weeds like goosegrass and junglerice were poorly controlled by postemergence treatments in many Xtend crops. This led to a regional project partially funded by the Alabama Soybean Producers to...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, June 4, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending June 4,...

Start scouting for Palmer amaranth that escapes dicamba or 2,4-D

• By Clay Perkins, Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster • This picture (Picture 1) was taken just four days after a dicamba + glyphosate + clethodim application on 3-inch Palmer amaranth. Judging from some experience with this Palmer population, the...

Cellulosic nanomaterial may help solve problem of herbicide drift

• By Fred Miller • Joseph Batta-Mpouma and Gurshagan Kandhola found a tiny solution to a big problem. Batta-Mpouma says up to 70 million pounds of herbicides are lost to the environment each year in the United States, according to Environmental...

Tankmix incompatibility problems reported with glyphosate, Sentris

• By Tommy Butts, Tom Barber and Jason Norsworthy • We’ve had several reports of applicators experiencing issues when tankmixing products with Engenia and the new volatility reducing agent (VRA) from BASF, Sentris. Applicators have stated that they are experiencing...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, May 28, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending May 28,...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, May 21, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending May 21,...

MU research shows fungicides in R3 soybeans boost yield, reduce disease

Three years of research in the “MU Certified” Strip Trial Program shows that applying fungicides to soybean at the R3 growth stage reduces foliar disease and increases yield. University of Missouri Extension plant pathologist Kaitlyn Bissonnette said the results come...

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