Rice Farming Magazine and Corteva Honor Independent Consultants
Rice Farming magazine and Corteva were honored to present Mr. Gary Dodd (pictured second from left in left photo) of Yuba City, California, as the 2024 Rice Consultant of the Year.
Dodd is...
⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅
California Farm Bureau
New technologies have transformed the world during the past half-century. Agriculture has been no exception, with the emergence of aerial drones, autonomous tractors, and other equipment changing the way crops are planted, cared...
Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumna Confirmed
⋅ BY KATHERINE HANCOCK ⋅
Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences former student Brooke Rollins ’94 has been confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. She is the first Texan...
⋅ BY MICHAEL KLEIN ⋅
USA Rice
More than 300 rice researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans recently for the 40th biennial Rice Technical Working Group meeting to discuss everything from agronomy, breeding, and cytogenics to utilization, weed...
⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅
It was a packed house at the Bolivar County Extension Auditorium for the Mississippi Rice Council Annual meeting recently. President Kirk Satterfield welcomed and thanked attendees and provided both his President’s report and the Mississippi Rice...
⋅ BY BRAD WATKINS ⋅
High input prices in recent years have significantly reduced profit margins for rice producers in the Mid-South. The negative impact of tightening profit margins is felt most acutely by rice producers renting cropland. A significant...
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As a longtime Horizon Ag customer and seed producer, Prairie County, Arkansas Farm Manager Darren Walker has seen a lot of good-yielding pure-line varieties introduced, only to be replaced by a better-yielding variety every few years.
The...
Gary Dodd didn’t have any agricultural roots to speak of. He was a single child of a father and mother, who both served in the United States Marine Corps, (his father a career Marine). Therefore, they moved around a...
Growing up across three east Arkansas counties, St. Francis, Monroe, and Arkansas, significantly shaped who I am. As a little girl, I watched my father have a deep appreciation of the outdoors, and anything that involved rice farming. Our...
Texas Rice Industry Strategizes Over Research, Politics, and Water
Recently, El Campo, Texas, was the place to be for the Western Rice Belt Production Conference, inside the warm and dry El Campo Civic Center. Rainy weather didn’t hinder growers and sponsors...
Breeding Rice to Withstand High Nighttime Stress
⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Rice plants can deal with the heat during the day, but when the sun goes down, they need to chill...
⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅
The start of another year has brought with it new laws and regulations that affect agricultural production in California. As of Jan. 1, new policies related to water, air quality, endangered species, and other issues...
⋅ BY RONNIE LEVY ⋅
U.S. long-grain rice has long been considered the quality standard of the world. In recent years, however, a number of both domestic as well as international customers have complained about the quality of some southern...
⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Upending of a 40-year precedent in rulemaking and a pair of end-of-year plot twists for two laws meant to prevent fraud and improve national security were just some of...
Texas Farm Bureau 2025 Scholarship Applications are Open
Texas Farm Bureau is committed to empowering the youth of Texas by investing in scholarships and programs to help students develop leadership skills and a future in agriculture.
This year, TFB will award...
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