• By Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster •
We have visited fields where growers assumed their Engenia or XtendiMax + glyphosate had controlled Palmer amaranth only to find that many had escaped and are now quite large (Picture 1). The...
U.S. corn and soybean varieties have become increasingly heat and drought resistant as agricultural production adapts to a changing climate. But the focus on developing crops for extreme conditions has negatively affected performance under normal weather patterns, a University...
Beginning in 2022, soybean growers will be able to protect the genetic potential of their seed investment against double the damaging pests with Lumiderm seed treatment.
The Corteva product adds cutworms, white grubs, thrips and wireworms to the control spectrum...
Two factors that play a key role in climate change — increased climate warming and elevated ozone levels — appear to have detrimental effects on soybean plant roots, their relationship with symbiotic microorganisms in the soil and the ways...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Firefighters, grain bin operators and farm workers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi are invited to attend an upcoming grain bin safety course on Monday, July 19 at the McGehee Men’s Club in McGehee, Arkansas.
The class...
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...
Once again, eligible soybean producers will have the opportunity to participate in the Tennessee Top Bean high yield contest. This contest is sponsored by the Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board/Research Council and coordinated by the University of Tennessee Extension.
To participate,...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
For the past week we have been getting reports along with a good many pictures of Palmer amaranth escaping dicamba application/s from retailers and consultants scouting fields (Picture 1 and 2). As...
• 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...
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 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...
• 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 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...
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,...
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...
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