Dicamba spraying currently allowed by several hundred
Arkansas farmers turn to legal systemWith Arkansas dicamba spraying cutoff of April 15 having passed, the ability of many growers to spray the herbicide on Xtend crops is still up in the air.Even as...
View ArticleMed school? Or working with farmers? ‘Ultimately, I went with my heart’
I never met a farmer that I did not like or want to spend time around. That is what has made writing this column for 40 years fun and rewarding.When I wrote a column for the Delta Farm Press 50th...
View ArticleBollworm control a challenge in Mississippi cotton
"There’s no question now that we’re seeing many more bollworms survive Bt corn than we ever have before, and that’s what’s been contributing to these big flights into cotton the last couple of...
View ArticleDicamba drift problems not an aberration
A veteran Tennessee weed scientist's perspectiveDicamba drift across the landscape was the dominant call again this June and July.Once again, Palmer amaranth control with dicamba was very good in many...
View ArticleHow is late-season weed control in the Mid-South?
Dicamba-related injury still showing upAt the start of August, how was the weed control landscape looking in the Mid-South?“If you go back three or four weeks, there was landscape damage from dicamba...
View ArticleEPA decision on dicamba formulation labels expected soon
Beck’s Hybrids explains company positionWhere will the EPA come down on the label of new dicamba formulations?While that remains to be seen, prompted by the government agency’s looming decision, a...
View ArticleHow is Provisia rice looking in Arkansas?
“I think for the weedy rice acres, the Provisia system has definitely got a fit,” says Jason McGee, northeast Arkansas consultant.With weedy rice fields becoming an expanding problem, Mid-South growers...
View ArticleManaging weeds essential to farm stewardship
Farmers say dicamba is necessary to manage resistant pigweed.A Dyer County, Tenn., farm family credits conservation as a key factor in maintain the family farm through nine generations.Jack Grills and...
View Article2018 dicamba research results: some good news?
Can new tech make a difference?At an Arkansas Plant Board meeting in late September, board members heard the current findings of multiple research projects looking at dicamba use in locations...
View ArticleNew research shows solutions to ugly dicamba saga closer
Findings on several fronts ‘encouraging’Editor’s note: This is the second story on dicamba-related research undertaken by University of Arkansas weed scientist Jason Norsworthy and colleagues during...
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