• 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 …
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Tips to manage corn earworms in soybeans
• 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 …
Read More »University of Arkansas’ insecticide manual has gone mobile
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 …
Read More »Got bugs? There’s an app for that
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.
Read More »A ‘game changer’
A mild winter and warm spring have concerned Extension specialists, who say redbanded stink bug numbers could build up rapidly.
Read More »ChemChina, Syngenta agree to divest 3 pesticides
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.
Read More »FMC to acquire part of DuPont’s pest control portfolio
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 …
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