Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed new members to the Arkansas State Plant Board to fill positions left vacant under an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
“The Plant Board is one of the most significant commissions for Arkansas agriculture,...
Four graduate students in varying life science disciplines have been named 2019 Arkansas soybean fellows.
They are Brett Hale of Arkansas State University and three University of Arkansas students: Derrick Harrison, Zachary Lancaster and Grant “Lawson” Priess.
The four were recommended...
Monsanto Co. filed suit Oct. 20 in Pulasky County Circuit Court seeking to block the Arkansas State Plant Board from prohibiting use of dicamba herbicides next summer.
The latest salvo comes after the Plant Board at its Sept. 21 meeting...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
In a special meeting June 23, the Arkansas State Plant Board passed an emergency rule on a 9-5 vote that would ban the use of in-season dicamba on row crops. At the same time, the board wants to speed...
Due to a "procedural error" yesterday (June 20), the Arkansas Plant Board's vote on an emergency prohibition of dicamba applications in that state has been rendered invalid.
The board will take up the matter again at a special meeting, 10.m.,...
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has approved proposed dicamba regulations that the Plant Board first adopted in December 2016.
As part of his...
After about three hours of public hearings before an overflow audience, the Arkansas Plant Board on Nov. 21 passed a rule that would severely restrict the use of dicamba herbicide. The proposed restrictions now go to the governor.
The hearing...
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