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...

BASF Corp. and the Israeli company, Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd. recently announced they will be partnering on developing herbicide-tolerant non-GMO crops using the Kaiima's proprietary EP technology platform. Although the technology is applicable to most crops, Kaiima has focused on a...

Southeast Missouri State University will host an agriculture technology workshop series, beginning Aug. 1, to help agribusinesses gain insight into innovations and regional resources available to them. The series will meet each Tuesday and Thursday during the first two weeks...

The Missouri Department of Agriculture has lifted the recent ban on applying Engenia, XtendiMax and FeXipan dicamba herbicides on tolerant soybeans and cotton, instead replacing it with Special Local Needs labels. The statewide order prohibiting use or sale of all...

In response to numerous complaints of suspected dicamba drift, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture issued emergency application restrictions on newer dicamba formulations. Use of older dicamba formulations are banned in Tennessee for the rest of the season. The rules are...

BASF, which markets Engenia dicamba herbicide, says Missouri and Arkansas agriculture officials' decision to temporarily halt dicamba applications robs farmers of one of the few technologies they have to control weeds resistant to other chemistries. The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based...

After a series of delays, it appears an emergency ban on in-season over-the-top use of dicamba on Xtend crops in Arkansas will go into effect at 12:01 a.m., July 11. Following more than 130 complaints filed with the state, the...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison has sided with two Arkansas Plant Board recommendations that prohibit the sale and use of dicamba herbicide on Xtend crops as well as increase fines for illegal use of the herbicide. The emergency rules would...