Heading into this season, Extension weed specialists were concerned about Environmental Protection Agency registrations not keeping pace with herbicide-resistant traits. Their worries, in particular, focused on Xtend soybeans and cotton from Monsanto, which have been genetically modified to resist...

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...

Think you have what it takes to "Grow for the Green"? The Arkansas Soybean Commission is encouraging Arkansas soybean producers who have yields of 60 bushels per acre or greater to enter its 2016 yield contest. First place in each of...

Monsanto Co. and DuPont signed a multi-year dicamba supply agreement for the United States and Canada. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. St. Louis-based Monsanto has invested more than $1 billion in a dicamba production facility in Luling, La.,...

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...

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 weeks in Arkansas from June 13-24. This...

Vicky Boyd, editor of Soybean South and Rice Farming and managing editor of Cotton Farming magazines, took top honors in Fresno County (Calif.) Farm Bureau's 22nd Annual Journalism Awards, Farm Trade Print category. Boyd wrote about how California's drought and environmental water...

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 June...

Calling all Alabama soybean producers. You could win $10,000 if you produce 100 bushels per acre or more on an Alabama field during the 2016 season. If two producers make the 100-bushel yield, the award will be $6,000 for first...

Monheim, Germany-based Bayer AG and Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop applications based on satellite imaging. Bayer plans to purchase the data from aerospace technology provider Planetary Resources to create new agricultural products and...

An administrative law judge has upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to cancel registration of the insecticide, flubendiamide. The active ingredient, marketed by Bayer CropScience as Belt, received a conditional registration in 2008. Bayer is joined by Nichino America as...

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 June...

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 May...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed allowing the use of sulfoxaflor insecticide again but on fewer crops and with additional pollinator-protection measures. The insecticide, marketed as Transform and Closer by Dow AgroSciences, was pulled from the market in 2015 after the...

After nearly two years of study, the National Academies of Sciences released a report May 17 showing that genetically engineered, or transgenic, crops have produced "no adverse health effects" to date in the human population. The U.S. Department of Agriculture,...