Rain, heat and humidity are a recipe for disease in the field. Edward Sikora, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System plant pathologist, said foliar diseases have become more prevalent on soybeans during the past several weeks. “We have a number of soybean...

Move over, herbicides. There’s a new sheriff in town. And he’s toting some powerful guns loaded with electricity to kill weeds. This shocking new method of weed control was demonstrated at the 2021 Pest Management Field Day at the University...

A Clemson University irrigation specialist has found using soil moisture sensors in fields can increase average net income by almost 20%. Jose Payero, assistant professor and irrigation specialist housed at the Edisto Research and Education Center, is conducting on-farm trials...

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 Aug....

• By Fred Miller • The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has appointed Trent Roberts the Endowed Chair in Soil Fertility Research. Roberts is an associate professor of soil fertility and testing for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station...

Most soybeans in Mississippi are having a good year to date, with 82% of the crop appearing in good or excellent shape past the midway point in the season. Prices also look good, with averages above those of recent years. But...

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...

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

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...

• By Scott Stewart • The fall armyworm outbreak of 2021 is going to be one to remember. My colleague, Dr. Gus Lorenz in Arkansas, called it “epic.” We knew something was different this year when another colleague in Texas, Dr....

Nufarm Americas Inc. has launched Leopard Herbicide, a premix of two sulfonylureas, for soybeans, field corn and cotton. It contains the active ingredients rimsulfuron and thifensulfuron in a water-dispersible granule formulation. Both are members of the Weed Science Society of...

In the 1984 film “The Terminator,” a robotic assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger warns, “I’ll be back.” If waterhemp could talk, it might say the same thing. Waterhemp can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. The prolific producer...

• By Rasel Parvej and David Moseley • Nitrogen (N) is the most yield limiting nutrient for any row crop including soybean. Since soybean, like other legume crops, can fix atmospheric N symbiotically through Rhizobium bacteria (Bradyrhizobia japonicum), the crop...

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...

River Valley Row Crop Tour It is time for us to start meeting again in person! We are proud to announce our 2021 River Valley Row Crop Tour. We will start in Faulkner County on the Thrash Farm on our...