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In-person, online field days mark UArk’s summer offerings

• By Fred Miller • The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture will present a series of online and in-person field days this summer that will display key research and Extension programs. The series will kick off with a...

Floods cause $200 million-plus in crop damage in SE Arkansas

• By Ryan McGeeney • Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...

Justin Chlapecka named Missouri rice Extension specialist

Justin Chlapecka, who recently earned his doctoral degree from the University of Arkansas, was named state rice Extension Specialist and assistant research professor with the University of Missouri. He begins Aug. 1. Chlapecka fills a hole left when Missouri rice...

Historic flooding destroys thousands of rice acres in the Mid-South

• By Josh Hankins • Additional reporting by Lydia Holmes, Steve Linscombe, Kane Webb and Emily Woodall. As the floodwaters from recent rainstorms in Southeastern Arkansas to recede, damage from the weather is still being assessed, though it is feared the...

Post-flood crop management meeting set for June 21 in Dumas, Ark.

Farmers who suffered flooding and other damage from heavy rain and winds last week will be able to get their post-flood production questions answered by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture agronomists and specialists at a meeting June...

BASF, Horizon Ag partner on ClearPro yield contest

BASF and Horizon Ag have have partnered to host the ClearPro Rice Challenge. To enter the ClearPro Rice Challenge for the 2021 season, access the contest rules and submit your entry form available at www.ClearProRice.com. Among the requirements are: • The ClearPro...

EPA, Army Corps plan to revisit WOTUS definition

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Army announced June 9 their intent to revise the definition of “waters of the United States” to better protect the nation’s  water resources. As described in an EPA declaration requesting remand...

Got panicle blight or resistant sheath blight? LSU researchers need your help

Dr. Jong Ham needs growers' help in identifying isolates of the bacterial panicle blight pathogen (Burkholderia glumae) and fungicide-resistant isolates sheath blight (Rhizoctonia solani) in Louisiana rice fields. An associate professor in the Louisiana State University Department of Plant Pathology...

RiceTec slates Louisiana field day for June 29 near Iota

RiceTec plans to hold its Louisiana field day, June 29, from 9 a.m.-noon CDT at the Troy Fruge Farm, southeast corner of Highway 97 at Ye Olde County Road near Iota. Topics to be discussed include the FullPage system, which...

Arkansas Ag Experiment Stations report National Weather Service data

• By Mary Hightower • The Rohwer Research Station in Desha County is known for hosting row crop variety trials as well as pest management and soil fertility experiments. This week it earned a bit of notoriety in another field:...

Managing submerged rice or a lost flood

• By Jarrod Hardke • “At some point it can’t get any wetter, it can only get deeper.”  The south half of Arkansas is feeling that statement this week. Torrential rains struck areas of east-central and southeast Arkansas with places...

Governor declares emergency as rain, flooding continue in SE Arkansas

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a state of emergency Thursday in response to the record rainfall and flooding in the southeastern area of the state. The declaration allows him to direct $100,000 from the Governor’s Disaster...

LSU AgCenter Rice Field Day returns June 30 after a year’s hiatus

After only being allowed to meet virtually last year, rice farmers will be able to put boots on the ground at this year’s rice field day, which will be held June 30 at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey...

Parts of Arkansas receive double-digit rainfall

• By Ryan McGeeney • By Tuesday morning, the soils Desha County had seen an almost complete reversal of fortune. “A week ago, we were needing the rain,” John Farabough, Desha county agricultural Extension agent, said. “We went from powder-dry dust...

Horizon Ag Louisiana field day set for June 29 near Kaplan

The 2021 Horizon Ag Louisiana Field Day is back in person and better than ever, with the spotlight this year on new, high-performing Clearfield and Provisia varieties that are raising the bar for yield potential, weed management and disease...

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