insecticides

• By Dominic Reisig • Do: Scout your crop. Identification is the first step so you know what you’re dealing with. The second step is counting what you have. Using these two things, you can apply Extension-recommended thresholds and save...

• By Scott Stewart • Despite a relatively lack luster moth flight, corn earworms (a.k.a. bollworm or soybean podworm) are showing up in some late maturing soybean fields, and as usual the action in centered in the river bottom. The...

The University of Arkansas's MP-144, also known as “Insecticide Recommendations for Arkansas,” has gone mobile. Producers, agricultural agents and consultants will now have access to a comprehensive database of insecticide information at their fingertips, with the University of Arkansas System...

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...

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...

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...