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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...

Who is AgriCapture, and What are They Doing for Rice? AgriCapture, a Nashville, Tennessee-based carbon credit company established in 2021, is taking the rice industry by storm. Read the following Q&A with president Tyler Hull to find out more about...

⋅ BY JUDITH EPPELE ⋅ University of California Bonnie Reiss Leading on Climate Fellow Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake...

AgCenter Researchers Join International Colleagues to Study Disease Posing Growing Threat to Rice ⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ LSU AGCENTER A disease called false smut is posing a growing threat to the global rice crop, and LSU AgCenter scientists are part of...

⋅ BY XIN-GEN (SHANE) ZHOU, LINA BERNAOLA, NUPUR SARKAR, GARY BRADSHAW, SAM RUSTOM, AND SABIN KHANAL ⋅ A new viral disease, Hoja Blanca, caused by the rice hoja blanca virus (RHBV), has been visually identified in 1,400 areas of ratooned...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Signs are pointing to high rice seed demand for 2025, and reliable seed suppliers like Horizon Ag, who stepped up to help meet the increased demand last year, are preparing to do the same this season. “Each...

Horizon Ag provides Clearfield® and Provisia® varieties that combine outstanding yield potential and agronomics. Then we help maximize the performance potential of the seed with insights and best management practices gleaned from working with universities and farmers. Demand for rice...

It was shiny and red, with a bright blue seat and the number 70 painted on it. The Honda name was on the side of the gas tank. I will never forget the day my daddy unloaded my 3-wheeler....