The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Taviuim Plus VaporGrip Technology, a premix from Syngenta that contains dicamba and S-metolachlor. State registrations are pending. The premix can be used preplant, at planting and early post-emergence on Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans...

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...

Near a bridge that connects Issaquena and Sharkey counties, Waye Windham leaned toward the side of his boat and dipped a paddle down into flood water to gauge its depth. The water was too deep for the paddle to reach...

A soybean seed treatment provided a yield bump but did not show much effect on soybean cyst nematode egg counts in 2017 and 2018, according to data from the University of Missouri Strip Trial Program. As part of the trial,...

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...

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...

Arkansas producers embrace cover crops to boost soil health, reduce erosion and maintain profitability. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Robby Bevis views his soil as a complex living web that has a symbiotic relationship with plant roots. When roots are absent, such...

Growers intend to plant 84.6 million acres in 2019, down 5 percent from the 89.1 million acres planted last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service Prospective Plantings Report released March 29. Compared with last year, planted acreage...

The Environmental Protection Agency has begun re-evaluating how Section 24(c) Special Local Needs registrations are reviewed and under what circumstances the agency will refuse requests. At issue is how some states have used Section 24(c)s to impose cut-off dates or...

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 Charlie Cahoon and Wes Everman • Most folks are trying to put the 2018 growing season behind them, especially with the abnormally wet, hurricane-ridden, and drawn-out harvest season. However, traveling around the state this Extension season, we’ve observed many...

• By Larry Steckel • The Environmental Protection Agency will begin requiring anybody who purchases, mixes or applies a paraquat-containing herbicide to take the “How to Safely Use and Handle Paraquat-Containing Products” online training module. It is expected the training will...

• By Larry Steckel • Clethodim is quickly replacing glyphosate as the “go-to” herbicide for grass control in West Tennessee. It began a few years ago as folks found that ryegrass and poa in many fields could no longer be controlled...

• By Carl Bradley, Daren Mueller, Shawn Conley, Damon Smith and  Kiersten Wise • Seed quality from the 2018 soybean harvest was below average across the majority of the soybean-producing areas of the United States. Several factors led to poor-quality soybean seed,...

The Southern Weed Science Society recently honored Larry Steckel, a professor with the University of Tennessee Department of Plant Sciences, with the Outstanding Educator Award. The award was presented at the society's 2019 annual meeting in Oklahoma City, according...