Targeted, environmentally friendly approach enlists beneficial organism to control corn earworm in soybeans. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Monty Bohanan, who farms with his brother, Derek, near Stuttgart, Arkansas, likes to joke that the biological worm control they tried on soybeans in...

Sure to be a best-seller, Mississippi State University's "2019 Insect Control Guide for Agronomic Crops" is available for free download from https://bit.ly/2tahYVv. The 129-page manual contains insect-related information on the gamut of Delta crops, ranging from soybeans to rice and cotton. In...

Despite a summer drought and wet harvest conditions, Missouri soybean farmers brought big yields for the Missouri Soybean Association’s annual soybean yield contest Results from  contest are now finalized with the highest yields topping 90 bushels per acre. This compares...

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 Feb....

The Louisiana State University AgCenter recently gave Sebe Brown, assistant professor of entomology, statewide Extension responsibilities in cotton, corn, soybeans and grain sorghum insect pest management. Brown is located at the AgCenter Dean Lee Research Station in Alexandria, where in...

In 2018, 24 growers entered the North Carolina Soybean Yield Contest, down from 62 entries in 2017. The harvest windows were narrow in 2018; many growers were not slowing down to measure soybean yield contest plots. Nonetheless, growers had some impressive...

Georgia’s top soybean producers were honored for producing high yields during the 2018 growing season at the recent Georgia-Florida Soybean/Small Grain Expo in Perry, Georgia. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension sponsors the Georgia Soybean Production Contest every year to emphasize...

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 Jan....

All Farm Service Agency offices nationwide will reopen shortly to provide additional administrative services to farmers and ranchers during the government shutdown. The announcement by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Purdue came after select FSA offices provided limited hours of service...

The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the Arkansas Soybean Association recently named the winners of the 2018 Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Contest, and one of those producers topped 100 bushels per acre in a trying year. The contest...

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based United Phosphorus Inc., also known as UPI, changed its name to UPL NA Inc. Jan. 1 to better reflect its global corporate identity. The change also comes after several recent acquisitions, including the June 2018 purchase...

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 Jan....

With China's recent import approval of the Enlist trait for soybeans and corn, Corteva Agriscience had planned to launch Enlist E3 soybeans and Qrome corn for the 2019 season. But those plans may be slowed as the company awaits...

Before Tennessee applicators can apply low-volatile versions of dicamba herbicide in 2019, they must first attend an approved dicamba-specific training. University of Tennessee Extension will offer a dicamba stewardship training across multiple locations, dates and platforms. Dicamba training is mandatory...

After receiving recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval, Valent U.S.A. recently launched Fierce MTZ Herbicide as a stand-alone liquid formulation. The Walnut Creek, California-based registrant plans to launch the premix of Fierce Herbicide and metribuzin for the 2019 growing season,...