Harvest is underway in Arkansas, and a few producers have already topped the 100 bushel mark in the annual Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge. No stranger to the 100-bushel barrier, Matt Miles recently harvested 120.53 bushels per acre...

• By Vicky Boyd, Editor • BASF recently launched an industrywide initiative – “Operation Weed Eradication” – that challenges growers and others within agriculture to take a zero-tolerance approach to ridding fields of devastating weeds. “As an industry, we’ve talked about managing...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

• 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...

• 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...

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...

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....

• 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...

• 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,...

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...