AmVac Chemical Corp. has launched a new customer website, www.amvac-chemical.com, with a robust search function for agricultural and environmental protection products, retailers and field representatives, marketing and sales campaigns,and product promotions.
“With more than 50 percent of traffic coming from...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Inscalis insecticide from BASF to control piercing-sucking insect pests in a number of row and specialty crops, including soybeans. State registrations are pending.
As many crop-protection companies have begun doing, Inscalis is the brand...
With more than half the Louisiana soybean crop harvested, many farmers are looking at a good year, according to LSU AgCenter soybean specialist Todd Spivey.
“About 60 percent of the crop is out of the field,” he says.
Farmers were reporting...
Over the past week, Sebe Brown, Louisiana State University AgCenter Extension antomologist, has received a number of phone calls about the economic thresholds for threecornered alfalfa hoppers (TCAH) in soybean.
He addressed those questions in this LSU AgCenter column.
Based on...
A tiny wasp — known as Paratelenomus saccharalis — is reducing kudzu bug populations and Georgia soybean farmers’ need to treat for the pest, says Michael Toews, a University of Georgia entomologist based on the UGA Tifton campus.
The wasp,...
The University of Arkansas, in conjunction with the Arkansas Crop Protection Association, will host the 2018 Soybean College Aug. 8 at the Newport Research Station.
Experts will share their latest findings and recommendations for soybean production. Attendees also will have...
By Angus Catchot, Jeff Gore and Don Cook —
In 2017, we were able to accurately predict the threat of redbanded stink bugs based on sampling ditch banks in the spring.
Every year we sample ditch banks across the state to...
For the 10th year, Syngenta is sponsoring its Pest Patrol program, which provides pest alerts to growers and consultants who have signed up for the text messaging service. Growers and consultants also are able to access the same information...
Auburn University entomologists have discovered a tiny wasp that could provide a huge benefit to soybean producers in Alabama and other Southern states plagued by the kudzu bug.
Though only about the size of a pinhead, the newly detected parasitoid...
Freezing winter temperatures should help knock down redbanded stink bug populations.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Sub-freezing winter temperatures throughout much of the South and Mid-South likely knocked down redbanded stink bug populations, prompting cheers from growers and consultants who have battled the...
Got bugs? There's an app for that.
The University of Tennessee recently launched a Web-based field guide to aid in identifying soybean insect pests.
The website performs like a smartphone app wherever you have cellular service and provides general information about...
If yields continue as they have been this season, Arkansas is set to break a state yield record.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service forecasts Arkansas’ soybean harvest will be 175 million bushels, up 20 percent from...
Mid-South soybean producers are encouraged to continue scouting their fields closely for redbanded stink bugs, a pest that can do more severe damage and do it longer into the season than other stink bug species.
The warning came from entomologists...
A mild winter and warm spring have concerned Extension specialists, who say redbanded stink bug numbers could build up rapidly.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
A mild winter across much of the Southern soybean belt has raised concerns of a bad year...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comments on a proposal that could potentially severely restrict the use of pyrethroid insecticides, including...
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