⋅ 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...
AgriLife Extension providing trainings across state with updates
Cotton, corn and soybean producers in 22 Texas counties will be restricted on the use of two popular herbicides this growing season after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency renews registrations.
Green cotton plants...
• By Larry Steckel •
The constant word I am hearing from retailers is that many herbicides are in tight or limited supply going into the spring. This all started back in late January when the most commonly used spring...
• By Larry Steckel •
Poor control of poa (annual bluegrass) and ryegrass have been the most numerous calls of late. This is becoming more common every spring. It would appear that an increasing portion of the poa and ryegrass...
Ask most Mid-South and Southern soybean growers what their most troublesome weed is, and they'll say Palmer pigweed—also known as Palmer amaranth. Not only is the weed inherently difficult to control because of its prolific seed production, but now...
ChemChina and Swiss-based Syngenta AG have agreed to divest three types of pesticides to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their proposed merger would harm competition in several U.S. markets.
The European Union made a similar announcement concerning the mergers...
As part of its planned merger with Dow, DuPont has entered into an agreement with FMC to divest part of its agricultural business. In return, DuPont plans to acquire FMC's health and nutrition business.
The divestiture will satisfy DuPont's commitments to...
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Muthu Bagavathiannan, an assistant professor of weed science and agronomy with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, will hold a free Web seminar...
Following the Environmental Protection Agency's conditional registration of Engenia and XtendiMax dicamba herbicides for use on dicamba-tolerant cotton and soybeans, North Carolina will have Special Local Need (SLN) labels for the two herbicides.
The two major differences on the SLN...
Ah, have times have changed. When Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., published its first "Compendium of Herbicide Adjuvants" in 1992, it contained 76 listings from 22 companies.
Thirteen editions later, and the 2016 version lists 779 products from 38...
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Deregulated herbicide trait and illegal herbicide use converge for historic drift injury to crops.
Soybean growers in several states are dealing with the aftermath of a “perfect storm” created by dicamba-resistant cotton and soybean varieties...
After receiving Environmental Protection Agency registration earlier this year, BASF Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., has launched Zidua Pro herbicide for soybeans.
The residual herbicide premix controls a broad array of grassy and broadleaf weeds, including Palmer amaranth.
It contains...
The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the comment period on a new dicamba formulation for use on soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to be tolerant to the herbicide. The deadline to comment is now May 31. The previous deadline was...
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