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• By Ryan McGeeney •
High winds and heavy rainfall from what forecasters expect will be a major hurricane — Hurricane Laura — will likely sweep through most of Arkansas by Friday, just as harvest nears for several...
• By Heather Marie Kelly •
With all the counties in Alabama with soybean rust present, many Middle Tennessee later-planted soybean fields will most likely benefit from a fungicide application for yield protection.
Dr. Ed Sikora, Extension plant pathologist at Auburn...
• By Whitney Crow, Angus Catchot, Jeff Gore and Don Cook •
There are several biological insecticide options labelled in soybean; however, the most readily available and widely used product is Heligen. In the past week, many people have asked...
How do winter crops affect your soybean production?
Sixth-generation farmer and graduate student MaKayla Gross gives an update on her research project that will provide producers with new information on how common winter crops like rye, wheat and rapeseed, affect...
• By Larry Steckel •
Calls continue from some folks frustrated with goosegrass, junglerice and Palmer amaranth escapes after a dicamba + glyphosate application. A large reason for the frustration is the follow-up applications have often provided less control than...
• By Lindsey Thiessen •
Early planting conditions for soybeans were cool and wet, which has lead to numerous reports of stand loss to damping off pathogens. Farmers who have not yet planted soybeans should also be mindful of the...
• By Larry Steckel •
As most know by now, on June 3 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the labels for XtendiMax, FeXapan and Engenia. The question now is how do we proceed from here...
The Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, along with seven other organizations representing farmers and ranchers, has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow producers to use the dicamba-based products they have on hand despite a ruling by the Ninth...
• Dominic Reisig •
I tweeted last month that there was no shortage of kudzu bugs around and that I expected some beans to be sprayed. However, I was expecting sprays in July and August, not during June!
We haven’t seen numbers...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
When asked how soybean planting in his county had been going over the past week or two, Robert Goodson, agriculture agent for the Phillips County Cooperative Extension Service office, paused.
“What do you see in your...
Soybeans and cotton are popping up across South Carolina, and Clemson University Extension Service specialists say they are susceptible to hungry insect pests.
Soybean situation
About 6% of the state’s soybean crop had been planted as of May 8. In his...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
The results of some University of Tennessee Extension studies to determine why junglerice has become a major weed pest in Tennessee Xtend cotton and soybean acres have provided some insights. This research...
As full-season soybean planting gets underway in Kentucky, Carrie Knott, University of Kentucky grain crops specialist, offers Kentucky producers some advice to help them get the crop off to a good start.
“We know that to maximize yields of full-season...
Do you think you know how to irrigate and stretch your water supply? If so, enter the University of Arkansas' "Most Crop Per Drop" contest.
Unlike regular yield contests that simply look at how many bushels you can produce per...
• By Dominic Reisig •
The evidence is overwhelming. Neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments do not provide a benefit in North Carolina. Most recently, our data were used in a study across 12 years and 14 states. We concluded that there...
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