• By Mary Hightower •
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days, with some morphing into online formats.
The Division of Agriculture had four in-person field days on...
A new $1 million grant from NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Program will go toward a study of greenhouse gases and its implications on rice production. Heading the research is University of Arkansas associate professor of biological engineering Benjamin Runkle.
The grant, titled...
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, according to a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University.
In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for...
Cooler temperatures and widespread rain events across Texas have forage and crop producers scrambling to fight armyworms, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton, said inquiries about the pest have...
University of Missouri officials announced July 14 that over the next nine months, the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and its collection of farms and centers will undergo a restructuring to make MOAES more efficient, effective and relevant. This restructuring...
• By Bruce Linquist •
Driving this week, I saw quite a few fields with heads starting to show up, so drain time is around the corner. Earlier than normal planting and a warm early season means that the crop...
• By Mary Hightower •
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture entomologists are seeking an emergency exemption to allow for the use of Intrepid to help control armyworms that threaten the state’s 1.24 million acres of rice.
“This is the...
Researchers are learning how to manage rice fields when paraquat drifts onto them early and late in the season, but what impact this herbicide has on grain quality and what happens when drift occurs midseason are still unknowns.
These questions...
The US Rice Producers Association board of directors recently selected Marcia Garcia to serve as president and CEO, replacing Dwight Roberts who is stepping down Aug. 1.
For the past five years, Garcia has served as chief operating officer, and...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
Armyworm calls have picked up big time this week. A majority of the fields with armyworms in them is row rice at various stage, spanning from early tiller all the...
The new director of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station recently joined the University of Wyoming’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Eric Webster began his duties July 6. He previously was director of the Louisiana State University AgCenter's Iberia Research...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Firefighters, grain bin operators and farm workers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi are invited to attend an upcoming grain bin safety course on Monday, July 19 at the McGehee Men’s Club in McGehee, Arkansas.
The class...
When a hurricane threatens to make landfall, forecasters offer a barrage of informational tools to communicate the risk of it coming through coastal and inland communities, so residents can prepare for its impact. Chief among these tools is the...
• By Mary Hightower •
After COVID forced a virtual version last year, the in-person Arkansas Rice Field Day will be back Aug. 6 at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart.
“We’re glad to be back to a face-to-face...
• By Yeshi Wamishe and Jarrod Hardke •
In flooded or furrow-irrigated rice, most cultivars including hybrids are susceptible or moderately susceptible to kernel or false smut or both. Under favorable weather conditions, kernel and false smut are generally severe...
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