arkansas

• By Ryan McGeeney • Despite a year dominated by major weather systems run amuck and a global pandemic, most of Arkansas’ major crops came out ahead in 2020, according to a Jan. 12 report from the U.S. Department of...

• By Mary Hightower • The traditional celebratory gathering may have been replaced by an online ceremony, but the change didn’t diminish the Extension, research and teaching successes honored Friday during the Arkansas Agriculture Awards. The annual awards are recognition of...

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Dec. 18,...

.box {margin-right: 12px;} • By Ryan McGeeney • If there’s one thing Arkansas soybean growers can say when no one else can, it might be this: 2020 has been a pretty good year. Despite an overly wet spring, delayed planting, and...

• By Jeremy Ross • Every year, varieties entered into the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Soybean Performance Trials are screened for tolerance to metribuzin. Metribuzin (Tricor, Canopy, etc.) is a PSII inhibitor (Group 5) herbicide that provides residual...

• By Michael Emerson, Travis Faske and Jesse Kelly • The southern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) is the most important yield-limiting plant-pathogenic nematode that affects soybean production in the mid-South. It is found in nearly all soybean-producing counties in Arkansas...

Dr. Jason Norsworthy and researchers at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have found a potential nonchemical option for growers to diminish the return of weed seed to the soil seedbank using harvest weed seed control mainly...

Do your homework and take a ‘1,000-foot look’ when selecting varieties. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Only a few decades ago, many growers didn’t think much about selecting soybean varieties and planted whatever the local co-op sold. Today, soybean producers face...

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Nov. 20,...

• By Ryan McGeeney • What a difference a week makes. Or a half hour. Even before the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service published its weekly Crop Progress and Condition report, Jeremy Ross, Extension soybean agronomist for the...

An annual conference offering expert insights into managing weed, insect and disease pests in Arkansas crops is moving online. The Arkansas Crop Protection Conference is scheduled for Dec. 1-2 and will feature 22 presentations geared toward growers, consultants and other...

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Oct. 23,...

During its recent board meeting, the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board elected new officers to lead the organization. Elected to chair the nine-member board is Donald Morton Jr. of Prairie County. John Freeman of Desha County was elected vice chair, with...

• By Ryan McGeeney • In the month that followed the high winds and rain that Tropical Storm Laura swept into Arkansas as the corn and rice harvests were set to commence, the state’s growers have seen stop-and-start progress at...

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas, ending Sept. 11,...