redbanded stink bug

• By Angus Catchot, Whitney Crow, Don Cook and Jeff Gore • Each week we sample, we will add to the previous weeks post with updated map and new counties Over the next few weeks, we will be posting redbanded stink...

• By Kenneth Gautreaux • The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture announced the winners of their annual faculty and staff awards during a recent virtual ceremony. Blair Hebert, an area agricultural agent from Iberia Parish, received the Floyd...

Preparations for the upcoming growing season will not need to be put on hold during the pandemic. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System and the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s department of crop, soil and environmental sciences are partnering to...

• By Angus Catchot, Don Cook, Whitney Crow and Jeff Gore • This year has been unusual to say the least with the COVID-19 outbreak. During this time, worker availability has become our limiting factor. It has ultimately limited our...

• By Angus Catchot, Whitney Crow, Don Cook and Jeff Gore • We have been getting some questions about what to expect this upcoming season with redbanded stink bugs in soybean. While we have had a few freezes and cold...

As if Mid-South producers don't have enough on their minds with rutted fields, flooding and late planting, now an influx of insect pests has made their lives even more difficult. And it's not limited to just one crop, either. Cotton “This...

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...

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...