Saturday, March 14, 2026

Tensas Parish, Louisiana, tour shows off conservation practices

Good stewardship of the land was the focus of a fall farm tour held at Somerset Plantation in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, recently. The farm, owned and operated by Jay Hardwick and his family, is one of two model farms that...

Too little or too much rain plagued Missouri soybeans this season

Most soybean and corn likely will yield less than normal this year due to late planting and unfavorable weather during critical grain-fill periods, says University of Missouri Extension soybean specialist Bill Wiebold. According to a Sept. 4 U.S. Department of...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 20, 2019

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 Sept....

Palmer amaranth’s molecular secrets reveal troubling potential

Corn, soybean and cotton farmers shudder at the thought of Palmer amaranth invading their fields. The aggressive cousin of waterhemp – itself a formidable adversary – grows extremely rapidly, produces hundreds of thousands of seeds per plant and is...

MSU expands free nematode testing program

The Mississippi State University Extension Service Plant Diagnostic Lab is offering free nematode testing for all Mississippi-grown soybeans through Aug. 30, 2020. This season’s testing was expanded to include all soybean nematode pests, not just the soybean cyst nematode or...

UA offers Arkansas growers free nematode soil testing

• By Amanda Greer • If you have fields that are: • Currently in soybeans. • Will be soybeans next year. • In longer cropping rotations that included soybeans in the past three years. • Cover crops in rotation with soybean. Soil samples may be...

Now is prime time to consider planting a cover crop

• By Trent Roberts • This season’s weather has been very cooperative for summer cash crop harvest, but unfortunately there were also many fields that were not planted and remained fallow for most of the summer. With harvest in full...

Insect pests pose problems for late-planted crops, including soybeans

When relentless spring rains pushed the planting window wide open, entomologists predicted problems for Arkansas row-crops. That has certainly proven true for the state’s late-planted cotton, soybeans and rice, said Gus Lorenz, Extension entomologist for the University of Arkansas...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Sept. 13, 2019

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 Sept....

Know whether to treat for kudzu bugs

• By Dominic Reisig • Kudzu bugs have been a no-show since 2013 but are widespread at low levels this year. A lot of folks are wondering if they should treat, justifiably so, since our fields with the highest populations...

A handful of diseases are popping up in late soybeans

• By Tom Allen • Soybean rust We don’t talk about soybean rust much as an issue, because it rarely has impacted yield. But with some late soybean acres in Mississippi, monitoring the disease this season might be important. To date,...

Southern soybean breeders meet to compare notes, collaborate

Soybean breeders from southern public research institutions and agricultural industries, meeting recently at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station headquarters, were focusing on a question that has taken a back seat in the past: What happens to soybeans after farmers...

EPA registers Syngenta fungicide seed treatment

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Saltro fungicide soybean seed treatment from Syngenta to control sudden death syndrome and nematodes. The seed treatment contains the active ingredient Adepidyn, the brand name for pydiflumetofen, an SDHI fungicide. It belongs to the...

3 considerations for soybean harvest aids

• By Angela McClure • Although the majority of soybeans are harvested without the benefit of a harvest aid, there are a few situations where they make sense. Using the right product in the right field at the right timing...

Do’s and don’ts of treating soybean insects in September

• By Dominic Reisig • Do: Scout your crop. Identification is the first step so you know what you’re dealing with. The second step is counting what you have. Using these two things, you can apply Extension-recommended thresholds and save...

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