An improved price environment for soybeans pushed the crop’s value of production to near record highs in Mississippi in 2021.
Soybean production grew about 25% from $1.2 billion in 2020 to $1.49 billion this year. It is Mississippi’s second largest...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Now that nearly every last soybean has been harvested from Arkansas fields, Jeremy Ross, Extension soybean agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, can put the harvest in perspective.
The caveat being, of...
Most soybeans in Mississippi are having a good year to date, with 82% of the crop appearing in good or excellent shape past the midway point in the season.
Prices also look good, with averages above those of recent years.
But...
Mississippi State University Extension agents will be assessing agricultural damage from early-June flooding until well into July, but preliminary estimates indicate losses could break records.
The 2019 Yazoo Backwater Area flood caused $617 million in crop damage alone. It looks...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...
Farmers who suffered flooding and other damage from heavy rain and winds last week will be able to get their post-flood production questions answered by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture agronomists and specialists at a meeting June...
• By Mary Hightower •
The Rohwer Research Station in Desha County is known for hosting row crop variety trials as well as pest management and soil fertility experiments. This week it earned a bit of notoriety in another field:...
• By Jeremy Ross •
With the exceptional rainfall we have had over the past two weeks, especially in southern Arkansas, I have had numerous calls asking how flooding will affect a soybean plant. The answer to this question is,...
• By Larry Oldham •
Flooding is challenging Mississippi families, homes and farms again, hence, this should be a review for many readers. The first Mississippi Crop Situation post about flooded soils was published in May 2011.
There is more experience...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a state of emergency Thursday in response to the record rainfall and flooding in the southeastern area of the state.
The declaration allows him to direct $100,000 from the Governor’s Disaster...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
By Tuesday morning, the soils Desha County had seen an almost complete reversal of fortune.
“A week ago, we were needing the rain,” John Farabough, Desha county agricultural Extension agent, said. “We went from powder-dry dust...
In a normal year, Clay Adcock grows 4,000 acres of corn, cotton and soybeans near Holly Bluff, Mississippi. But 2019 was anything but normal.
“All of my farmland was completely flooded,” he says. “I didn’t have a crop this year....
A sharper focus on the economic impact of the lower Delta backwater flood of 2019 helps predict the implications of continued flooding this year.
Mississippi State University Extension Service researchers compiled data on the overlooked costs of the backwater flood...
The beginning of May brought a welcome sight for Mississippi producers: sunny skies and drying fields.
For the second straight year, precipitation levels well above normal in the winter and early spring have slowed planting significantly across much of Mississippi....
A distinguished professor in University of Missouri's Division of Plant Sciences, Henry Nguyen’s longstanding research focus is related to abiotic stress tolerance and disease resistance in plants, primarily soybeans. Two United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food...
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