Varieties

Check out the myriad existing and new varieties available for the 2017 planting season. Each variety is followed by a list of bullet points that highlight its traits. Don't see a variety that fits your particular planting program? The 2017 Southern Soybean...

Despite challenging conditions this season, a handful of Arkansas farmers have topped the 100-bushel threshold, with two of them breaking the standing state record within a week of each other. They are participants in Arkansas' Grow for the Green Soybean Yield Challenge. “I’m...

Randy Dowdy, owner of Randy Dowdy Farms in Pavo, Ga., not just set a new world soybean production record this year but blew it out of the water with 171.9 bushels per acre. The previous record of 160.6 bushels per...

A relative newcomer to soybean development, Bayer has reconfirmed its commitment to the Mid-South industry with the recent completion of a new soybean breeding station near Marion, Ark. The Marion facility joins the Soybean Breeding and Trait Development Station Bayer completed...

Flanked by members of Arkansas'  rice, soybean and wheat promotion boards, officials with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture dedicated a new foundation seed processing plant, Aug. 9, outside of Stuttgart. The state-of-the-art plant, which was built on university property...

Think you have what it takes to "Grow for the Green"? The Arkansas Soybean Commission is encouraging Arkansas soybean producers who have yields of 60 bushels per acre or greater to enter its 2016 yield contest. First place in each of...

Monsanto Co. and DuPont signed a multi-year dicamba supply agreement for the United States and Canada. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. St. Louis-based Monsanto has invested more than $1 billion in a dicamba production facility in Luling, La.,...

The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the comment period on a new dicamba formulation for use on soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to be tolerant to the herbicide. The deadline to comment is now May 31. The previous deadline was...

Last season a handful of Missouri growers got a chance to test out new Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans. Here's what they learned. By Carroll Smith Last year, Brad Gilmer and Lance Lawson grew seed production for Roundup Ready 2 Xtend...

Making the proper variety selections is extremely important to the overall success of a soybean crop, according to Jared Whitaker, a member of the soybean team with the University of Georgia. Variety selection is a process, and growers need to...

This section offers a partial listing of soybean varieties suited for the Southern growing region. For more offerings, contact your local seed representative. AgVenture Midsouth 42C2RR • Light Tawny with better than average shatter score • Farmer proven multiple years • Plant shows good...

AgVenture Midsouth 42C2RR NEW • Light tawny with good width and upward branches • MR3, MR14 Soybean Cyst Nematode resistance • Good Sudden Death score • Rps1k for Phytophthora Root Rot protection 44K4RR • Shorter plant type adapts well with narrow rows and irrigation • C gene...