The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service have joined together to open a new research center focused on water management in the Mississippi Delta.
The Agricultural Water Research Center, housed on the...
Irrigation systems are one the most essential components of a farmer’s toolbox. After sitting idle during the winter, now is the time farmers should check their systems before the spring growing season.
According to University of Georgia Assistant Professor Wes...
Georgia soybean and blueberry farmers will soon have smartphone applications to supplement their practical knowledge with technical data on when to irrigate crops.
The SmartIrrigation app, set to be released this year for both iOS and Android devices, uses detailed...
Targeted, environmentally friendly approach enlists beneficial organism to control corn earworm in soybeans.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Monty Bohanan, who farms with his brother, Derek, near Stuttgart, Arkansas, likes to joke that the biological worm control they tried on soybeans in...
Despite a summer drought and wet harvest conditions, Missouri soybean farmers brought big yields for the Missouri Soybean Association’s annual soybean yield contest
Results from contest are now finalized with the highest yields topping 90 bushels per acre. This compares...
In 2018, 24 growers entered the North Carolina Soybean Yield Contest, down from 62 entries in 2017.
The harvest windows were narrow in 2018; many growers were not slowing down to measure soybean yield contest plots.
Nonetheless, growers had some impressive...
Georgia’s top soybean producers were honored for producing high yields during the 2018 growing season at the recent Georgia-Florida Soybean/Small Grain Expo in Perry, Georgia.
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension sponsors the Georgia Soybean Production Contest every year to emphasize...
The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association recently named the winners of the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest, and one of those producers topped 100 bushels per acre in a trying year.
The contest...
• By Angela McClure •
Most farmers had their fair share of seed quality issues during fall 2018, including many seed bean producers. The commercial seed supply is expected to be affected some by weathering at harvest, with severity depending on...
Metribuzin (Sencor, Canopy, etc.) is a PSII inhibitor (Group 5) herbicide that provides residual control of an assortment of annual grasses and broadleaf weeds in soybean, including Palmer amaranth.
With the extensive use of PPO inhibitors (Group 14) and chloroacetamide...
The Tri-State Soybean Forum will bring in experts from Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas to the Capps Center at the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Mississippi.
This half-day forum will cover a wide variety of soybean topics, ranging from...
With a focus on economic development, the South Carolina agricultural industry is poised for positive productivity in 2019.
This was the message Clemson experts gave during the recent third annual Ag Outlook conference. Clemson agricultural economists Nathan Smith, Scott Mickey,...
The Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board recently published a soybean irrigation guide to help growers improve their irrigation efficiency while at the same time boosting their profitability.
The irrigation guide is a partner publication to the board's disease and insect scouting guides.
The...
With approximately 20 percent of Arkansas soybeans still left to harvest, producers were struck in mid-November with a cold snap that neither sped nor hindered progress; it just made things slightly more miserable.
“It’s not helping anything,” says Jeremy Ross,...
Although soybean seed quality issues seen during 2018 aren't as bad as 2009, they are more widespread and extend beyond the Mid-South and Mississippi River Delta.
Dr. Bobby Golden, Mississippi State University Extension rice and soil fertility agronomist, and Dr....
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