The Arkansas Feral Hog Eradication Task Force has established an anonymous reporting system to gauge just how many of the swine pests are in the state and how the current hog-removal efforts are faring.
These easily accessible reporting forms are...
MS Technologies and Bayer have commercially launched LibertyLink GT27 soybeans, which are tolerant to Liberty, glyphosate and a new HPPD herbicide.
The HPPD herbicide that will be paired with the new releases, Balance Bean, is pending Environmental Protection Agency approval. But...
A tiny wasp — known as Paratelenomus saccharalis — is reducing kudzu bug populations and Georgia soybean farmers’ need to treat for the pest, says Michael Toews, a University of Georgia entomologist based on the UGA Tifton campus.
The wasp,...
Fields across Arkansas seem to be sprouting solar panels as multiple growers take advantage of the one thing they can count on: the sun.
Solar energy is catching on with Arkansas farmers, which is a trend that is very promising...
A group of scientists recently reported a population of waterhemp in Missouri resistant to a record-breaking six herbicide modes of action.
Their findings were recently published in the Weed Science Society of America's journal, Weed Science. The authors included Lovreet...
The Louisiana State University's AgCenter will hold a crop production and pest management field day expo, June 19, at the Tom H. Scott Research, Extension and Education Center in Winnsboro.
The expo represents a new field day model intended to...
At about 2.2 million acres, soybeans are easily Mississippi’s biggest row crop with a flexible planting window that puts them in the clean-up position when farmers cannot plant other crops on time.
Trent Irby, soybean specialist with the Mississippi State...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Freezing winter temperatures should help knock down redbanded stink bug populations.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Sub-freezing winter temperatures throughout much of the South and Mid-South likely knocked down redbanded stink bug populations, prompting cheers from growers and consultants who have battled the...
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