Soybeans
Arkansas farmers might not have 2018 access to dicamba products in-season for over-the-top use in corn and soybeans if the ban passes a few more steps. The Arkansas State Plant Board recently approved of regulatory changes concerning the product’s potential use in soybeans and cotton.
Many soybean producers say they get their best yields when they get the crop in the ground early, but that wasn’t the case this year. Pete Meyer of S&P Global says now farmers are seeing those ramifications.
As yield results start rolling in from the 25th annual Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour (formerly Pro Farmer), farmers are watching markets in anticipation. Slight shifts from USDA Aug.1 predictions could impact corn and soybean prices.
More than 2,200 complaints with dicamba named as the suspect have been filed in the U.S. since the beginning of the 2017 season. In perspective, if various Extension experts’ estimate of 3.1 million U.S. acres of damage is accurate, that represents 3.5% of planted soybean acres, as of press time.
Do your soybeans stack up? Get to scouting to check for yield potential and identify areas of weakness to target next year.
The world’s soybean crop has grown by leaps and bounds since 1990, growing 231%. And “the U.S. and Brazil are in a neck-and-neck competition for the top spot,” according to ag economist David Widmar, writing for the Agricultural Economic Insights blog.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is investigating about two dozen complaints from farmers about a weed killer used on genetically modified soybean fields that can tolerate the herbicide.
As complaints about dicamba damage continue to trickle in, farmers, applicators, manufacturing companies and state employees are trying to get a handle on what’s going on.
With complaints rising across the countryside, certain U.S. states are taking action to manage suspected dicamba damage. Restrictions and out and out bans limit farmer and applicator options this season.
Arkansas farmers are waking up Tuesday morning to the first hours of the 120-day dicamba ban that went into effect overnight. Missouri farmers are on hold, and some are hoping the state ban is short-lived.
It seems as if many producers throughout The Corn Belt are dealing with a taxing crop year, from drought in the West to water in the East. For Northwest Ohio growers, this marks the third consecutive year of weather challenges. USDA says 56 percent of Ohio’s corn crop and 58 percent of the soybean crop is rated good to excellent.
As farmers prepare for the first year of over-the-top dicamba application, questions cloud the horizon.
New marker to honor farmer who pioneered soybeans in Indiana
The world can’t seem to get its fill of soybeans. Exports from the U.S. and Brazil, the world’s largest growers, are the highest ever for this time of year, and demand is poised to eclipse earlier government forecasts for a record this season.
New soybean option provides differentiation and market premiums
As a new month begins, there’s new things to watch.
Farmers interested potential premiums from high oleic soybeans now have full Chinese import approval for one product.
While you might think of hula hoops as a game for children they’ve found a new use—helping farmers calculate soybean populations. With no need for a tape measure, this method could save time and help farmers make critical decisions such as replant.
A bill that would require increased penalties for off-label herbicide use passed in the Missouri House and moves on to the Senate. The bill could be passed as early as mid-March.
Two men at the center of a fatal fight allegedly over dicamba drift had an ongoing dispute over the issue, according to a local Extension agent familiar with the matter.
Arkansas farmer Mike Wallace, 55, was found shot to death the night of Oct. 28 outside of Leachville, Ark.. Mississippi County Sheriff Dale Cook says the shooting occurred after a dispute over Dicamba herbicide drift that Wallace had claimed damaged his crops. Mourners packed the Monette church for his funeral on Friday, and gathered the evening before to pay their respects to the Wallace family.
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After a lengthy review, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reevaluated data supporting use of sulfoxaflor and has renewed its registration with specific conditions. Examples of sulfoxaflor products include Dow’s Transform, Closer and Sequoia insecticides.
Minnesota co-op plans to build soybean plant in North Dakota
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China recently approved Bayer and MS Technologies’ Balance GT Soybeans for import. With the European Union’s previous approval, the companies are closer to a full U.S. commercial launch.
Farmers will have access to 54 new soybean varieties in Pioneer’s A-Series soybean lineup. The varieties used a new breeding technique Pioneer named Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT) 4.0.
Northeast Arkansas, the Missouri Bootheel and northwest Tennessee are having problems with dicamba drift. In the Bootheel, four counties have been issued federal search warrants in relation to the illegal herbicide.