The Arkansas Plant Board will conduct a public hearing beginning at 9 a.m., Nov. 8, on its proposal to ban over-the-top in-season dicamba herbicide use from April 16-Oct. 31. The regulations include exemptions for dicamba use in pastures, rangeland, turf,...

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 Sept....

The Arkansas Plant Board is accepting comments about a proposed ban on application of all dicamba formulations from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018. Deadline to comment is Oct. 30. The proposed ban stems from recommendations by the Arkansas Dicamba Task Force,...

If you grow soybeans in North Carolina and have the top yield, your field could nab you an expense-paid trip to the Commodity Classic next year in Anaheim, California. You also could be flying to Southern California if you produce...

A collaborative research project between Purdue University and Dow/DuPont researchers has discovered a novel soybean gene that provides widespread resistance to the costly fungal disease Phytophthora root and stem rot. The research team pinpointed a gene called Rps11 that confers strong...

The Arkansas Plant Board's Pesticide Committee voted Sept. 12 to ban applications of all dicamba formulations within the state from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018. The full Plant Board could take the measure up as early as Sept. 21 at its...

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 Sept....

Rotating herbicide modes of action has been touted as a way to slow the development of resistance in weeds. But a recent study from the University of Illinois explains why rotation doesn't work. “If you were to ask farmers what...

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Elevore herbicide. which contains Arylex active, for fall and spring burndown in cotton, corn and soybeans. Arylex active, a synthetic auxin from Dow AgroSciences, is the brand name for the active ingredient halauxifen-methyl. When tankmixed...

DuPont Crop Protection has introduced EverpreX herbicide for soybean weed control. Containing the active ingredient S-metolachlor, the product controls most annual small-seeded grasses and select broadleaf weeds, including waterhemp, Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species. EverpreX belongs to the Weed Science...

The Arkansas Dicamba Task Force, meeting Aug. 24 at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain, recommended a date-specific ban on dicamba use for the 2018 crop year. That recommendation and others will now be forwarded to the State...

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 Aug....

Mid-South soybean producers are encouraged to continue scouting their fields closely for redbanded stink bugs, a pest that can do more severe damage and do it longer into the season than other stink bug species. The warning came from entomologists...

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 Aug....

Preliminary University of Arkansas research results shed light on potential drift and volatility of three new formulations. By Vicky Boyd Editor Even if you follow all of the label recommendations when applying the new dicamba formulations, the herbicides can still volatilize and...