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Against all odds, Arkansas soybeans enjoy steady year

.box {margin-right: 12px;} • By Ryan McGeeney • If there’s one thing Arkansas soybean growers can say when no one else can, it might be this: 2020 has been a pretty good year. Despite an overly wet spring, delayed planting, and...

Grant will fund UArk study of plant defenses against nematodes

• By Fred Miller • Plants come with pretty good security alert systems against pests and maladies. But entomologist Fiona Goggin wants to give them an upgrade to mount faster, more robust defenses against diseases and nematodes that attack them...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Dec. 11, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Dec. 11,...

UArk 2021 Cross-Reference Guide for common soybean varieties

• By Jeremy Ross • The 2021 Soybean Cross-Reference Guide has been updated with new soybean varieties. This year’s version contains only varieties that have been commercially sold in the past seven years. Older varieties that are no longer commercially...

2021 UArk metribuzin ratings for soybean varieties

• By Jeremy Ross • Every year, varieties entered into the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Soybean Performance Trials are screened for tolerance to metribuzin. Metribuzin (Tricor, Canopy, etc.) is a PSII inhibitor (Group 5) herbicide that provides residual...

Field performance of 40 varieties in a southern RKN-infested field, 2020

• By Michael Emerson, Travis Faske and Jesse Kelly • The southern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) is the most important yield-limiting plant-pathogenic nematode that affects soybean production in the mid-South. It is found in nearly all soybean-producing counties in Arkansas...

Narrow-windrow burning shows promise to reduce weed seeds

Dr. Jason Norsworthy and researchers at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have found a potential nonchemical option for growers to diminish the return of weed seed to the soil seedbank using harvest weed seed control mainly...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Dec. 4, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Dec. 4,...

Choices, choices

Do your homework and take a ‘1,000-foot look’ when selecting varieties. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Only a few decades ago, many growers didn’t think much about selecting soybean varieties and planted whatever the local co-op sold. Today, soybean producers face...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Nov. 27, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Nov. 27,...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Nov. 20, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Nov. 20,...

Arkansas soybean harvest rallies, heads to strong finish

• By Ryan McGeeney • What a difference a week makes. Or a half hour. Even before the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service published its weekly Crop Progress and Condition report, Jeremy Ross, Extension soybean agronomist for the...

Arkansas Crop Protection Conference moves online Dec. 1-2

An annual conference offering expert insights into managing weed, insect and disease pests in Arkansas crops is moving online. The Arkansas Crop Protection Conference is scheduled for Dec. 1-2 and will feature 22 presentations geared toward growers, consultants and other...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Nov. 13, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Nov. 13,...

University of Arkansas Soybean Economic Notes, Oct. 30, 2020

Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Oct. 30,...

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