• By Rachel Vann, Jim Dunphy, Lindsey Thiessen, and Michael Buffaloe •
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Various non-foliar yield enhancement products are available to North Carolina soybean producers. Profit margins are currently narrow for soybeans and much thought should go into the potential yield advantages...
• By Larry Stecker and Tom Mueller •
With the off-target dicamba movement in recent years, Tennessee soybean growers asked my colleague, Dr. Tom Mueller, and me to vet some of the directions on the XtendiMax and Engenia labels. The goal...
Soybean varieties differ with respect to levels of tolerance or sensitivity to saflufenacil. Alabama Extension specialists have researched and recorded soybean varietal responses to saflufenacil applications for the past two years, in hopes of helping producers make informed decisions...
The University of Tennessee is launching the Tennessee Top Bean Soybean Yield Contest this year for growers of irrigated and non-irrigated soybeans.
Tennessee had a soybean yield contest in the 1990s, but it faded away some years ago, says Angela...
Near a bridge that connects Issaquena and Sharkey counties, Waye Windham leaned toward the side of his boat and dipped a paddle down into flood water to gauge its depth.
The water was too deep for the paddle to reach...
A soybean seed treatment provided a yield bump but did not show much effect on soybean cyst nematode egg counts in 2017 and 2018, according to data from the University of Missouri Strip Trial Program.
As part of the trial,...
Arkansas producers embrace cover crops to boost soil health, reduce erosion and maintain profitability.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Robby Bevis views his soil as a complex living web that has a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. When roots are absent, such...
Growers intend to plant 84.6 million acres in 2019, down 5 percent from the 89.1 million acres planted last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service Prospective Plantings Report released March 29. Compared with last year, planted acreage...
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun re-evaluating how Section 24(c) Special Local Needs registrations are reviewed and under what circumstances the agency will refuse requests.
At issue is how some states have used Section 24(c)s to impose cut-off dates or...
• By Charlie Cahoon and Wes Everman •
Most folks are trying to put the 2018 growing season behind them, especially with the abnormally wet, hurricane-ridden, and drawn-out harvest season. However, traveling around the state this Extension season, we’ve observed many...
• By Larry Steckel •
The Environmental Protection Agency will begin requiring anybody who purchases, mixes or applies a paraquat-containing herbicide to take the “How to Safely Use and Handle Paraquat-Containing Products” online training module.
It is expected the training will...
• By Larry Steckel •
Clethodim is quickly replacing glyphosate as the “go-to” herbicide for grass control in West Tennessee. It began a few years ago as folks found that ryegrass and poa in many fields could no longer be controlled...
• By Carl Bradley, Daren Mueller, Shawn Conley, Damon Smith and Kiersten Wise •
Seed quality from the 2018 soybean harvest was below average across the majority of the soybean-producing areas of the United States. Several factors led to poor-quality soybean seed,...
Projections indicate that corn and cotton acreage will increase this year but less grain sorghum and soybeans will be grown in the state, an Louisiana State University AgCenter economist told attendees of a recent AgCenter crops and cattle forum...
Palmer amaranth is one of the most economically-damaging and difficult-to-control broadleaf weeds across the United States. Previously, Palmer amaranth in Kansas has developed resistance to group 2 (ALS), 5 (atrazine), 9 (glyphosate) and 27 (HPPD – mesotrione, Huskie, Laudis,...
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