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WEB RESOURCES FOR SOYBEAN PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Much new technology has been added to the resource base for soybean production in the lower Mississippi River Valley. An increasing amount of this new information is available in websites on the internet.

The accompanying table provides web addresses for pertinent and important information useful for soybean production in the midsouth.

State

Website address (shown by topic)

Variety trials. All five midsouthern states–Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee–conduct soybean variety evaluations and the results are available online.

Ark.

http://comp.uark.edu/~avrtest/index.php?sb&content/

La.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/crops/soybeans/

Miss.

http://msucares.com/pubs/crops3.html

Mo.

http://agebb.missouri.edu/cropperf/soybean/

Tenn.

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/fieldcrops/soybean/

Budgets. Soybean enterprise budgets are an excellent source of up-to-date estimates of costs and returns for soybean enterprises.

Ark.

http://www.aragriculture.org/crops/soybeans/budgets/default.htm

La.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/money_business/farm_business/

Miss.

http://www.agecon.msstate.edu/Research/budgets.php

Tenn.

http://economics.ag.utk.edu/budgets.html

Weed Management. All five midsouthern states publish weed management guides, usually on an annual basis.

Ark.

http://www.uaex.edu/Other_Areas/publications/HTML/MP-44.asp

La.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/crops/soybeans/

Miss.

http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1532.html

Mo.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explorepdf/manuals/M00171.pdf

Tenn.

http://weeds.utk.edu/rcmanual.htm.

Disease Management. Web addresses for information published by universities of three of the midsouthern states are shown. Additional websites for Crop Production Basics (CPB) and the Southern Soybean Disease Workers (SSDW) have information and photographs gleaned from several sources.

Ark.

http://www.aragriculture.org/diseases/Soybeans/default.htm

La.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/crops/soybeans/

Mo.

http://aes.missouri.edu/delta/muguide/g4452.stm

CPB

http://www.cropproductionbasics.com/soybean_diseases.htm

SSDW

http://cipm.ncsu.edu/ent/SSDW/soyatlas.htm

Insect management. The following five addresses are for websites that contain information about insect pests and their management and control. Some sites also contain color photographs of insects.

Ark.

http://www.aragriculture.org/insects/soybean/default.htm

La.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/crops_livestock/crops/soybeans/

Miss.

http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p0883.pdf

Tenn.

http://www.utextension.utk.edu/fieldcrops/soybean/

CPB

http://www.cropproductionbasics.com/soybean_insects.htm

Handbooks. The Arkansas Extension Service has an online handbook. Other midsouthern states’ soybean handbooks are either out of date or are in hard copy form.

Ark.

http://www.uaex.edu/Other_Areas/publications/HTML/MP-197.asp


Websites other than those shown here offer helpful soybean production information. Their exclusion from this article does not imply their lack of credibility or usefulness. However, the above sites, when taken together, offer a comprehensive body of information that covers the full gamut of production issues for soybeans in the midsouthern states.

Successful Farming, online at www.agriculture.com/ag/sfonline 1/12/07)

 

 


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