Field to Film: Featured Research

Dr. Jeremy Ross says that seed treatments could lead to success during the upcoming planting season. Ross, extension agronomist for soybeans at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, has spent the past several years testing seed for optimal planting time and yield. In his experimentation, Ross alongside Trent Roberts, Ph.D. discovered a trend…

John Carlin, the University of Arkansas Systems’s Agriculture Division Project/Program Director, says that soybean producers can benefit from soybean variety testing. Carlin has seen first-hand how beneficial variety testing can be for soybean producers. Carlin manages soybean variety trials across the state of Arkansas. Carlin says that genetics by environment (GxE) is a large factor…

As growers know, herbicides are part of the farming process. The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board has invested checkoff dollars to research the impacts of herbicide and cultural practices to improve the management of resistant pigweed populations. Tom Barber, Ph.D. conducted research with four research colleagues, Dr. Bob Scott, Dr. Jason Norsworthy and Dr. Nilda Burgos,…

Arkansas Research Arms Soybean Farmers Against Southern Root-Knot Nematodes By Laura Temple Soil harbors countless beneficial microorganisms that help plants thrive. But it also harbors plant-killers. In Arkansas and other areas of the Mid-South, the southern root-knot nematode decimates soybeans. “Nematodes are tiny, non-segmented round worms,” explains Dr. Travis Faske, professor and Extension plant pathologist…

Sponsored by the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board and the soybean checkoff, Dr. Leandro Mozzoni, soybean breeder and associate professor at the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture, is leading a group of research associates in an effort to bring Group IV varieties to Arkansas. Working with their soybean breeding counterparts in Chile, Mozzoni took advantage…

Heading into the 2017 soybean-growing season, Dr. Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist with the University of Arkansas’s Division of Agriculture, sensed problems on the horizon for Arkansas producers, thanks to a mild winter. Although he had a feeling the Redbanded Stink Bug could be an issue, he did not expect the amount of destruction soybean growers…