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Two of the greatest soilborne concerns in the Mid-South soybean world, according to Mississippi Extension Plant Pathologist Tom Allen, are reniform and root-knot nematodes. “Nematodes are a tremendous problem in the Mid-South due to the level of acreage dedicated to continuous soybean or soybean following continuous cotton,” he says....More

Corn’s popularity is still growing as a Southern cash crop that has farmers beaming at high prices that place it up there with soybeans as leaders in revenue production....More

Johnny Dodson takes a field-by-field approach to preventing pigweed in soybeans and other crops. He holds losses from the wicked weeds to a minimum. But he knows resistance management plans for his farm and others in the South should be revised regularly to maintain solid weed control. The Halls,...More

As weed control in the Mid-South evolves from a single technology to one with multiple modes of action, older farmers are learning new tricks and younger ones are finding out about older products. That’s especially true on the farm of Marty White, who farms with his sons, Jesse Flye and Logan White, growing cotton, soybeans, rice, corn and wheat near Jonesboro, Ark....More

Corn acres have been rising steadily in the Mid-South and Southeast states. Higher grain prices have played a major role, certainly, but a less-talked-about reason has been glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth....More

A group of farmers participated in side-by-side trials this season to compare weed control and yield performance of Asgrow brand...More

This is my very first crop,” says Adron Belk III in early September as he makes one final pass over the last few rows of Roundup Ready corn on Triple Run Farms, located in the Mississippi Delta just outside of Cleveland. He’s ending a 120-hour work week, trying to beat the threat of Hurricane Isaac....More

Depending on where you farm, 2012 was either too dry, too wet or, as Goldilocks told the three bears, just right. It will go down in the record books as one of the driest years in decades in the Midwest, Arkansas, western Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, west Tennessee and parts of Texas, and not so bad in the remainder of the Southeast....More

After 35 years in the farming business, Obion County, Tenn., fourth-generation farmer Kenneth Barnes approaches his occupation much like a seasoned hunter — focused more on strategy, observation and pushing his own limits....More