Friday, March 13, 2026

Arkansas Soybean College planned for Aug. 8

The University of Arkansas, in conjunction with the Arkansas Crop Protection Association, will host the 2018 Soybean College Aug. 8 at the Newport Research Station. Experts will share their latest findings and recommendations for soybean production. Attendees also will have...

Monsanto teams with Adjuvants Unlimited on sprayer system cleaner

Monsanto Co. has has collaborated with Adjuvants Unlimited LLC to develop a unique agricultural sprayer system cleaner designed to deactivate dicamba. Adjuvants Unlimited plans to market the technology this season through their industry partners, according to a news release. The new...

Copper theft is rampant in the Delta

Report it to the Mississippi Delta Ag Theft Task Force! A number of area producers and building owners are reporting copper theft directly related to tractors, ATVs, trailers, irrigation wells and many other items targeted for scrap metal and wiring. If...

Missouri extends dicamba cutoff date for Bootheel

The Missouri Department of Agriculture has changed the 24(c) special local need labels for FexaPan, XtendiMax and Engenia dicamba herbicide formuatlions. The new cutoff date for Dunklin, Pemiscot, New Madrid, Stoddard, Scott, Mississippi, Butler, Ripley, Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties...

Consider a disk if you have heavy horseweed problems

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

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, April 27, 2018

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...

UT Extension names Tennessee Farmer of the Year

By Patricia McDaniels — A third-generation farmer from Jackson, Tennessee, who manages more than 5,000 acres of row crops has been named the Tennessee Farmer of the Year by University of Tennessee Extension. Johnny Verell, who farms in partnership with his...

Good news — cold zapped redbanded stink bugs

By Angus Catchot, Jeff Gore and Don Cook — In 2017, we were able to accurately predict the threat of redbanded stink bugs based on sampling ditch banks in the spring. Every year we sample ditch banks across the state to...

University of Arkansas teams with FieldWatch to ID sensitive crops, beehives

The University of Arkansas has partnered with FieldWatch to offer pesticide applicators working in row and field crops ways to identify herbicide-sensitive crops and beehives so they can adjust their spraying accordingly. CropCheck, an online platform developed by the non-profit...

House Ag Committee introduces 2018 Farm Bill draft

House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas) has introduced the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, House Resolution 2 — known informally as the 2018 Farm Bill. In releasing the wide-sweeping legislative proposal April 12, Conaway said in a statement,...

Arkansas Natural Resources Commission offers water-saving incentives

To help promote water conservation, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission is offering financial incentives in the form of tax credits to state farmers and landowners who make land improvements. Among those are building surface water reservoirs, land leveling, converting from groundwater...

Syngenta sponsors pest update program again this season

For the 10th year, Syngenta is sponsoring its Pest Patrol program, which provides pest alerts to growers and consultants who have signed up for the text messaging service. Growers and consultants also are able to access the same information...

‘Most Crop per Drop’ contest challenges Arkansas row-crop producers

Do you think you're a good water manager who can maximize water-use efficiency? If so, enter the University of Arkansas' 2018 Arkansas Rice and Row Crop Irrigation Yield Contest for rice, soy and corn producers. If you earn the top...

Auburn University finds second kudzu bug natural enemy

Auburn University entomologists have discovered a tiny wasp that could provide a huge benefit to soybean producers in Alabama and other Southern states plagued by the kudzu bug. Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid...

More questions than answers

New multiple-resistant pigweed biotype proves hard to control, reinforces need to rotate effective herbicide modes of action. By Larry Steckel A survey sponsored by the Tennessee Soybean Promotion Board was conducted last summer to determine the percentage of fields that...

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