⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE
Farmers and agricultural aviators may be able to reduce herbicide drift by making simple adjustments, according to a recently published study.
The study, published in Nature’s “Scientific Reports” journal late...
• By Fred Miller •
Joseph Batta-Mpouma and Gurshagan Kandhola found a tiny solution to a big problem.
Batta-Mpouma says up to 70 million pounds of herbicides are lost to the environment each year in the United States, according to Environmental...
Synthetic auxin products have given growers an important option for managing weed populations resistant to glyphosate and other herbicides. But according to an article featured in the journal Weed Technology, there is one important downside to dicamba, 2,4-D and...
A University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture study published in the Journal of Weed Technology found that mixing glyphosate with formulations of dicamba consistently lowered the pH of the spray solution below 5.0—a critical value according to the latest...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Soybean growers applying harvest aids near rice should pay special attention to minimize drift, which can potentially cause significant rice yield reductions even late in the season, says Justin McCoy, a Mississippi State University graduate...
Before Tennessee applicators can apply low-volatile versions of dicamba herbicide in 2019, they must first attend an approved dicamba-specific training.
University of Tennessee Extension will offer a dicamba stewardship training across multiple locations, dates and platforms. Dicamba training is mandatory...
The Louisiana State University's AgCenter will hold a crop production and pest management field day expo, June 19, at the Tom H. Scott Research, Extension and Education Center in Winnsboro.
The expo represents a new field day model intended to...
The University of Arkansas has partnered with FieldWatch to offer pesticide applicators working in row and field crops ways to identify herbicide-sensitive crops and beehives so they can adjust their spraying accordingly.
CropCheck, an online platform developed by the non-profit...
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 is accepting comments about a proposed ban on application of all dicamba formulations from April 15-Oct. 31, 2018. Deadline to comment is Oct. 30.
The proposed ban stems from recommendations by the Arkansas Dicamba Task Force,...
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...
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...
BASF Corp. officials cut the ribbon today on the recently completed $270 million expansion of the company's Beaumont, Texas, dicamba manufacturing plant.
The three-year project was the largest investment in the history of the BASF crop protection unit, Debbie Dalley,...
The University of Arkansas has launched an herbicide injury image database, https://plants.uaex.edu/herbicide/default.aspx, to help users identify potential off-site movement of several herbicides.
Users can search from among several drop-down menus: herbicide group, herbicide, plants, and plant/herbicide.
The images are designed to represent expected...
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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...
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