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New rice varieties shine in Arkansas research highlights The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Division of Agriculture’s research arm, released four new rice varieties in 2022. CLL18 is a high-yielding Clearfield variety that will be available to growers in 2023 through...

Putting the ‘good’ in Goodland Farms. ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ Associate Editor H aving grown up in the expansive rice country of Northeast Arkansas, David Caudell never had any intention of moving to Texas. However, after coming down to visit an area...

⋅ BY JUSTIN CHLAPECKA ⋅ A s you head up the Mississippi River, the Delta soils run out pretty quick after you hit the Missouri state line. From south to north, there are about 85 miles of soils suitable for rice...

A forecast for U.S. rice imports through 2060 and some reflections on how the world rice price really works What you need to know about the rice market in the United States is that the rice market in the Americas,...

⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture T he University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Anheuser-Busch are partnering to research and promote resource conservation for rice farming in Arkansas and the surrounding region. Their focus...

⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture Jarrod Hardke has a word for the 2022 rice season — erratic. “The year began with dramatically higher input costs, especially for fertilizer and diesel fuel,” said Hardke, extension rice...

2021 CY PLC payment rates for long grain/medium grain rice Dr. Michael A. Deliberto, LSU AgCenter Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, says the 2021 national marketing year average (MYA) prices for long grain rice and medium grain rice have been published...

Horizon Ag, Rice Farming and USA Rice are proud to bring you the recipients of the 2022 Rice Awards. The program highlights three honorees for their contributions to the success of the U.S. rice industry through the Rice Farmer of the...

W ith the past season in your rearview mirror, take time to relax, say farewell to the year, and review which cultivars did well and which ones didn’t. Also, check out university trial results to see how different cultivars performed...

⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ LSU AgCenter When drought conditions set in across Louisiana this summer, many farmers resorted to irrigation to try to save their crops. While it helped preserve yields and quality in some cases, the sharp uptick in...

⋅ BY BONNIE A. COBLENTZ ⋅ MSU Extension Service “Snow” appearing on the sides of highways and bare ground visible for miles is a sure indication that row crop harvest in Mississippi is well underway. As of early October, the majority of the...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture Arkansas has connections to several projects being funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s $2.8 billion Climate-Smart Commodities program aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, improving carbon storage and developing...

⋅ By Kyle Peveto ⋅ LSU AgCenter A cooperative research project between the LSU AgCenter and the University of Malaya in Malaysia to develop “climate-smart” rice has received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. The award,...