Friday, March 13, 2026

USDA: Arkansas corn and soybean acres rise, cotton and rice fall

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, July 2, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor emeritus with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending July...

Palmer amaranth control now that June 30 dicamba cutoff has passed

• By Larry Steckel • It is July 1, so the June 30 cut-off to spray dicamba over Xtend soybean has passed. The questions of the week have been once July has arrived what alternatives are there to control Palmer...

Poor control of fall armyworm seen in Mississippi

• By Jeff Gore, Angus Catchot, Whitney Crow and Don Cook • We have had numerous calls over the past week or two about poor control of fall armyworm with pyrethroids. They started in the southern part of the state...

CNH Industrial plans to buy Raven Industries

CNH Industrial N.V., which manufacturers Case IH and New Holland farm equipment, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the capital stock of Raven Industries Inc. for $58 per share. Totaling $2.1 billion, the price represents a...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, June 25, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending June 25,...

Agencies tackle high volume of Mississippi ag damage assessments

Mississippi State University Extension agents will be assessing agricultural damage from early-June flooding until well into July, but preliminary estimates indicate losses could break records. The 2019 Yazoo Backwater Area flood caused $617 million in crop damage alone. It looks...

Application period opens for Arkansas’ 2021 Grow for the Green yield contest

The application period for the 11th annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge is officially open. All soybean producers in Arkansas are eligible to participate in this contest, which is administered by the Arkansas Soybean Association and funded...

Floods cause $200 million-plus in crop damage in SE Arkansas

• By Ryan McGeeney • Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, June 18, 2021

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending June 18,...

Diagnosing in-season potassium deficiency in soybeans

• By Rasel Parvej, David Moseley, Brenda Tubana and Syam Dodla • Potassium (K) deficiency can decrease more than 50% of soybean yields across soil types that range from sandy loam to clay loam. Potassium deficiency symptoms in soybeans first...

MSU soil lab adds carbon test to services

Mississippi agricultural producers and landowners who are interested in carbon sequestration can test their soil’s carbon content through the Mississippi State University Extension Service. The Extension Soil Testing Laboratory recently added tests that quantify amounts of organic matter and detect...

Post-flood crop management meeting set for June 21 in Dumas, Ark.

Farmers who suffered flooding and other damage from heavy rain and winds last week will be able to get their post-flood production questions answered by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture agronomists and specialists at a meeting June...

Arkansas Ag Experiment Stations report National Weather Service data

• By Mary Hightower • The Rohwer Research Station in Desha County is known for hosting row crop variety trials as well as pest management and soil fertility experiments. This week it earned a bit of notoriety in another field:...

In light of flooding, should I replant? It depends….

• By Jeremy Ross • With the exceptional rainfall we have had over the past two weeks, especially in southern Arkansas, I have had numerous calls asking how flooding will affect a soybean plant. The answer to this question is,...

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