The 2019 Arkansas irrigation yield contest, "Most Crop per Drop," is open for entries. “We are conducting a conservation yield competition measuring yield and water use for rice, soybeans and corn,” says Chris Henry, University of Arkansas associate professor. The contest...

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 May...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken the next step in its review of glyphosate. As part of the action, the agency reaffirms its findings that the herbicide poses no risk to public health when used according to the current...

Asian soybean rust was confirmed on older kudzu leaves from Tattnall County near Reidsville, April 9, according to a Web post from Bob Kemerait, a University of Georgia plant pathologist based at Tifton. Although the pustules were moderately sporulating, no...

Waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, both members of the pigweed family, have become significant threats to crop yields and farm incomes across the Americas. In the United States, they compete with crops in the South and in parts of the...

By Blake Wilson and Sebe Brown Populations of pest insects are often influenced by factors at play well before crops are planted. Winter mortality is a key regulator of spring insect populations, particularly for pests introduced from tropical regions. The 2018-2019...

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 April...

Mississippi State University has hired Drew Gholson as an assistant professor and the irrigation specialist with the MSU Delta Research and Extension Center and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer Water Center. He began his new job April 1...

• By Tom Barber • Horseweed (marestail) has always been an issue at spring burndown prior to planting. In the early 2000’s, it became a much bigger problem in the southern United States by developing resistance to glyphosate (Roundup). Horseweed can germinate...

• By Rachel Vann, Jim Dunphy, Lindsey Thiessen, and Michael Buffaloe • https://youtu.be/EybeHUAJnmo Various non-foliar yield enhancement products are available to North Carolina soybean producers. Profit margins are currently narrow for soybeans and much thought should go into the potential yield advantages...

• By Larry Stecker and Tom Mueller • With the off-target dicamba movement in recent years, Tennessee soybean growers asked my colleague, Dr. Tom Mueller, and me to vet some of the directions on the XtendiMax and Engenia labels. The goal...

Soybean varieties differ with respect to levels of tolerance or sensitivity to saflufenacil. Alabama Extension specialists have researched and recorded soybean varietal responses to saflufenacil applications for the past two years, in hopes of helping producers make informed decisions...

The value of Arkansas’ No. 1 crop fell by 15 percent in 2018 as the effects of an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China took hold through the summer. A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

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...

The University of Tennessee is launching the Tennessee Top Bean Soybean Yield Contest this year for growers of irrigated and non-irrigated soybeans. Tennessee had a soybean yield contest in the 1990s, but it faded away some years ago, says Angela...