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• By Ryan McGeeney •
If there’s one thing Arkansas soybean growers can say when no one else can, it might be this: 2020 has been a pretty good year.
Despite an overly wet spring, delayed planting, and...
• By Kenneth Gautreaux •
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture announced the winners of their annual faculty and staff awards during a recent virtual ceremony.
Blair Hebert, an area agricultural agent from Iberia Parish, received the Floyd...
By Larry Steckel and Tom Mueller •
As most know, the Environmental Protection Agency approved a new five-year registration for Engenia, Tavium and XtendiMax to be used in Xtend cotton and soybean. The new registration has some new labeled directions...
The 2020 North Carolina State University Soybean Official Variety Testing data is now available on the new variety selection tool:
Variety Selection Tool
Additionally, we have created reports from the tool based on specific grower needs in six counties in North...
• By Fred Miller •
Plants come with pretty good security alert systems against pests and maladies. But entomologist Fiona Goggin wants to give them an upgrade to mount faster, more robust defenses against diseases and nematodes that attack them...
• By Cale Cloud and David Hall •
With winter just around the corner, now is a good time to winterize and perform some preventive maintenance on center pivot irrigation systems.
Irrigation system maintenance during the winter months is very important...
Preparations for the upcoming growing season will not need to be put on hold during the pandemic. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s department of crop, soil and environmental sciences are partnering to...
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 Dec. 11,...
• By Jeremy Ross •
The 2021 Soybean Cross-Reference Guide has been updated with new soybean varieties. This year’s version contains only varieties that have been commercially sold in the past seven years. Older varieties that are no longer commercially...
• By Jeremy Ross •
Every year, varieties entered into the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Soybean Performance Trials are screened for tolerance to metribuzin.
Metribuzin (Tricor, Canopy, etc.) is a PSII inhibitor (Group 5) herbicide that provides residual...
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new regulations surrounding the use of paraquat dichloride herbicide and is accepting public comments on it through Jan. 11, 2021.
The proposed interim decision for paraquat, if finalized and adopted, would further restrict how...
• By Johnny Morgan •
A group of LSU AgCenter scientists have been awarded one of 20 national grants to look at ways to decrease the use of groundwater and increase the use of fresh water in agricultural production.
The grant...
Results from the 2020 Tennessee soybean variety trials, conducted by the University of Tennessee, have been finalized and are now available.
UT AgResearch & Education Center Tests: All soybean variety trials were conducted in each of the physiographic regions of...
BASF plans to introduce Renestra insecticide for the 2021 growing season. A premix of the pyrethroid, alpha-cypermetrin, and afidopyropen, Renestra offers knockdown and residual control of a broad array of aphid and lepidopteran pests in soybeans and cotton, according...
• By Michael Emerson, Travis Faske and Jesse Kelly •
The southern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) is the most important yield-limiting plant-pathogenic nematode that affects soybean production in the mid-South. It is found in nearly all soybean-producing counties in Arkansas...
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