If you grow soybeans in North Carolina and have the top yield, your field could nab you an expense-paid trip to the Commodity Classic next year in Anaheim, California.
You also could be flying to Southern California if you produce...
A collaborative research project between Purdue University and Dow/DuPont researchers has discovered a novel soybean gene that provides widespread resistance to the costly fungal disease Phytophthora root and stem rot.
The research team pinpointed a gene called Rps11 that confers strong...
The Arkansas Plant Board's Pesticide Committee voted Sept. 12 to ban applications of all dicamba formulations within the state from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018.
The full Plant Board could take the measure up as early as Sept. 21 at its...
Rotating herbicide modes of action has been touted as a way to slow the development of resistance in weeds. But a recent study from the University of Illinois explains why rotation doesn't work.
“If you were to ask farmers what...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Elevore herbicide. which contains Arylex active, for fall and spring burndown in cotton, corn and soybeans.
Arylex active, a synthetic auxin from Dow AgroSciences, is the brand name for the active ingredient halauxifen-methyl.
When tankmixed...
DuPont Crop Protection has introduced EverpreX herbicide for soybean weed control.
Containing the active ingredient S-metolachlor, the product controls most annual small-seeded grasses and select broadleaf weeds, including waterhemp, Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species.
EverpreX belongs to the Weed Science...
The Arkansas Dicamba Task Force, meeting Aug. 24 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain, recommended a date-specific ban on dicamba use for the 2018 crop year.
That recommendation and others will now be forwarded to the State...
Mid-South soybean producers are encouraged to continue scouting their fields closely for redbanded stink bugs, a pest that can do more severe damage and do it longer into the season than other stink bug species.
The warning came from entomologists...
Preliminary University of Arkansas research results shed light on potential drift and volatility of three new formulations.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Even if you follow all of the label recommendations when applying the new dicamba formulations, the herbicides can still volatilize and...
After a series of delays, it appears an emergency ban on in-season over-the-top use of dicamba on Xtend crops in Arkansas will go into effect at 12:01 a.m., July 11.
Following more than 130 complaints filed with the state, the...
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison has sided with two Arkansas Plant Board recommendations that prohibit the sale and use of dicamba herbicide on Xtend crops as well as increase fines for illegal use of the herbicide. The emergency rules would...
Although surge irrigation can improve irrigation and ultimately improve your bottom line, programming the surge units may not be the easiest thing.
The University of Arkansas has taken some of the mystery out of that with a new fact sheet...
In a special meeting June 23, the Arkansas State Plant Board passed an emergency rule on a 9-5 vote that would ban the use of in-season dicamba on row crops. At the same time, the board wants to speed...
Due to a "procedural error" yesterday (June 20), the Arkansas Plant Board's vote on an emergency prohibition of dicamba applications in that state has been rendered invalid.
The board will take up the matter again at a special meeting, 10.m.,...
Dicamba drift complaints are up sharply this year compared to 2016 in Arkansas, with 117 having already been logged with the Arkansas State Plant Board as of June 19.
Jason Bond, a weed Extension specialist at Mississippi State University, also...
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