Arysta LifeScience gains access to DuPont’s Rynaxypyr mixtures
Long-term agreement allows Arysta LifeScience to combine DuPont's Rynaxypyr insect control to create novel insecticidal formulations. Arysta LifeScience and DuPont Crop Protection will collaborate on...
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Chlorpyrifos active ingredient can remain on market for now
Environmental groups run into roadblock on efforts to remove food residue tolerances for chlorpyrifos active ingredient.The Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition from two environmental...
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FMC Corporation buys DuPont Crop Protection Business
UPDATED: Deal includes insecticide business, cereal broadleaf herbicides and future R&D pipeline.Editor's Note: This story has since been updated with comments from FMC made during an investor...
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Growers, consultants, Extension working to bring back Transform
Growers and consultants working to keep Transform 'in the system' for controlling pests in cotton, grain sorghum. (Click on Farmcast icon for interview with Phil Jost and Hank Jones.It’s taken a lot of...
View ArticleSyngenta redesigns Pest Patrol website for optimal user experience
Enables visitors to access updates about current/anticipated pest pressures from leading experts. Offers optimized mobile and desktop experiences. Sign up to receive text message alertsSyngenta has...
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Farmers can still comment on pesticide reregistration
EPA reopens comment period for the pyrethroid class of insecticides. You have until July 7 to make a comment.Earlier this year, we reported that EPA was conducting its mandated reregistration for the...
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Latest report on honeybees, neonic insecticides
New report summarizes data, draws various views from the industry.By Tom J. BechmanChristian Krupke first stated that insecticides exhausted from corn planters were collecting on flowers bordering...
View ArticleFortenza registered for insecticide seed treatment for corn and cotton
Fortenza seed treatment insecticide has received registration approval from EPA for use on corn and cotton to guard against early-season insect damage. Fortenza seed treatment insecticide from Syngenta...
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Fall armyworms hit Arkansas rice, pastures early
Fall armyworms are making an early appearance in Arkansas. Growers are urged to scout fields and pastures.They’re called fall armyworms, but this year, they’re not even waiting for summer to bring...
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New solutions needed for death by mosquito
Farmers and ranchers are advised to perform a mosquito check around their properties to make certain they eliminate as many breeding conditions as possible, and further warned that when working...
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Dicamba, flooding head list of top Arkansas ag stories of 2017
Record soybeans and invasive pests also on readers’ minds.2017 presented another tumultuous year for agriculture in Arkansas, from record flooding to pitched battles over the use of one of the most...
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Judicious spending recommended for Delta cotton
Efficient production may be crucial to eking out a profit for cotton in 2018Delta cotton farmers, once again, will be tasked with the difficult chore of growing more cotton but investing less money to...
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Communication, pilot safety top concerns for aerial application
Effective communication between pilot and farmer is essential for effective application and pilot safety.Strother Martin, portraying the chain gang captain in the 1967 movie classic Cool Hand Luke,...
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TPSA members discuss latest on pesticide spraying
The Pesticide Stewardship Alliance or TPSA was created to help promote the recycling of the ubiquitous 2.5-gallon pesticide jugs that were rapidly becoming an eyesore throughout farm country.TPSA has...
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Clock is ticking on pesticide registrations for EPA
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs has to conduct exhaustive studies of 725 cases or uses of more than 1,000 pesticides, according to Rick Keigwin, director of the Office of Pesticide ProgramsCongress...
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How to manage sugarcane aphid in grain sorghum
More producers are considering growing grain sorghum again in 2018.Arkansas grain sorghum acreage has varied dramatically over the last few years due to grain prices and more recently due to the threat...
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Control plant bugs, thrips in cotton
Plant bugs can be a pest in cotton beginning at pinhead square, on through cut-out.Scout and spray: That’s how Mid-South cotton growers effectively manage plant bugs, says Scott Stewart, University of...
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Pesticide-sensitive crop registry available online
Register apiaries and commercially grown crops sensitive to pesticides.Tennessee Commissioner of Agriculture Jai Templeton is encouraging Tennesseans with apiaries and commercially grown crops...
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Arkansas offers pilot program to improve applicator stewardship
Pilot program being offered in partnership between FieldWatch and the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.Arkansas pesticide applicators working row and field crops will be able to...
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Corteva, Monsanto partner to expand options for fighting corn rootworm
Corteva Agriscience will receive a license to stack Monsanto’s Corn Rootworm III and MON89034 traits with Corteva Agriscience’s insect control traits. Growers in the U.S. and Canada will have more...
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