Over the past week, Sebe Brown, Louisiana State University AgCenter Extension antomologist, has received a number of phone calls about the economic thresholds  for threecornered alfalfa hoppers (TCAH) in soybean. He addressed those questions in this LSU AgCenter column. Based on...

Lonnie Fortner, a producer of cotton, corn, soybeans and peanuts in Claiborne County, will represent Mississippi in the 2018 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year contest. As an early adopter of precision agriculture technology in southwest Mississippi, Fortner...

Superb sleuthing among plant pathologists in three states helped track down the culprit whose symptoms include soybean seedling death, yellow leaves and lower yields. Taproot decline, a disease first noticed in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi in 2007 and formally identified...

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 July...

A new pest that attacks certain crops grown in Louisiana has been identified. The root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne enterolobii (M. enterolobii), is a serious pest that has a high rate of reproduction and a wide host range, including soybeans, sugarcane and...

The Weed Science Society of America recently released a report based on a recent research workshop on the off-target movement of dicamba herbicides. The meeting, comprising invited scientists, regulators and registrants, was designed to identify data gaps and develop research...

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 July...

Helm Agro has signed an agreement to acquire Extreme herbicide from BASF Corp. The herbicide, a premix of glyphosate (Weed Science Society of America Group 2) and imazethapyr (WSSA Group 2), is labeled for control of a more than...

Think you have what it takes to grow more than 60 bushels per acre, and do you farm in Arkansas? Then the Arkansas Soybean Association and the University of Arkansas want you. The two are partnering on the annual Grow...

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 July...

The Arkansas Feral Hog Eradication Task Force has established an anonymous reporting system to gauge just how many of the swine pests are in the state and how the current hog-removal efforts are faring. These easily accessible reporting forms are...

MS Technologies and Bayer have commercially launched LibertyLink GT27 soybeans, which are tolerant to Liberty, glyphosate and a new HPPD herbicide. The HPPD herbicide that will be paired with the new releases, Balance Bean, is pending Environmental Protection Agency approval. But...

China is following through on its threat to implement a 25-percent tariff on U.S. soybean imports, affecting not only the farmers who grow the crop but also the transportation sector that exports it. Half of the top 10 U.S. soybean-producing...

A tiny wasp — known as Paratelenomus saccharalis — is reducing kudzu bug populations and Georgia soybean farmers’ need to treat for the pest, says Michael Toews, a University of Georgia entomologist based on the UGA Tifton campus. The wasp,...

As of July 1, the Crop Production Services, or CPS, name will be no longer. In its place will be Nutrien Ag Solutions. The new brand name will align retail business across the globe and strengthen the company's long-term mission...