• By Mary Hightower • Arkansas agriculture and the state’s rural areas may face the potential for significant disruption in supply chain, labor and government services due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a multi-sector economic impact...

• By Larry Steckel • Poor control of poa (annual bluegrass) and ryegrass have been the most numerous calls of late. This is becoming more common every spring. It would appear that an increasing portion of the poa and ryegrass...

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

• 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...

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved label changes to Chetah Herbicide from Nufarm Americas Inc. that allows postemergence use on glufosinate-tolerant crops, including soybeans, cotton, corn and canola. “The new language provides clarity around the use of Cheetah in all...

• By Angus Catchot, Don Cook, Whitney Crow and Jeff Gore • This year has been unusual to say the least with the COVID-19 outbreak. During this time, worker availability has become our limiting factor. It has ultimately limited our...

A new soybean variety – with resistance to soybean cyst nematode derived from the breeding line PI 89772 – is being released by Syngenta in small quantities in 2020. Syngenta is sharing seed with university researchers and farm cooperators...

• By Tommy Butts • Spray water quality, specifically pH and hardness, can impact the efficacy of numerous pesticides. It has been shown that as water pH increases into more alkaline or basic conditions (pH greater than 7), pesticide active...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas corn and soybean growers are expected to increase the amount they plant modestly this season, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent Planting Intentions Report. Corn acreage grew a modest 4% over 2019 planting...

Weather always plays a role in the spring planting decisions of Mississippi row-crop producers, but the market impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is another variable they will have to consider in 2020. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Prospective Plantings...

Let’s rap about Dectes stem borer in soybeans • By Scott Stewart • Over the years and several times in the last month, I’ve had folks tell me how bad Dectes stem borer hurt their soybean yields. Almost without exception, they...

U.S. soybean producers say they plan to plant 83.5 million acres this season, up 10% from 2019. But this year's planting intentions are still far behind the 89.1 million acres growers said they planned to plant in 2018. Compared with...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has registered Alite 27 herbicide, the only HPPD herbicide that can be used on LibertyLink GT27 soybeans. The registration is for use in select counties across Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota and Tennessee,...

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

• By Larry Steckel • In 2019, we ran calls on about 40 fields where producers were disappointed with their Palmer amaranth control from applications of Engenia or XtendiMax. We collected Palmer amaranth seed last fall from 22 of these...