The latest survey conducted by the Weed Science Society of America shows that Palmer amaranth is the hardest to control weed in grass crops, while foxtail species are the most prevalent.
More than 315 weed scientists across the United States...
The Environmental Protection Agency has registered AZterknot fungicide from Vive Crop Protection for use on a wide array of crops, including rice, corn, cotton, peanuts and soybeans.
It is a premix of a traditional fungicide, azoxystrobin, and a biological, an...
Koch Agronomic Services LLC has completed its acquisition of Compass Minerals' North American micronutrient assets, the global intellectual property rights with trademarks and patents, and certain other assets associated with Wolf Trax, Rocket Seeds and Hydro Bullet product platforms....
Help us by participating in an irrigation survey.
The questions in this survey are only about furrow- or flood-irrigated croplands.
Flood-irrigated croplands still play an important role in supplying food, feed and fiber demands in the United States but have received...
Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are both considered greenhouse gases which can be lost from agricultural fields. In general, flooded agricultural fields display a higher methane loss while upland fields display a higher nitrous oxide loss.
New rice cultural...
• By Vernon Miller •
Calling them the densest he’s ever seen, Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson was startled to find invasive apple snail egg masses in St. James Parish. But he said preventative measures, and a little...
Frank Carey and Jeff Rutledge have been named 2021 outstanding alumni by the University of Arkansas' Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.
Carey is the Outstanding Ph.D. Alumnus...
• By Jeff Gore, Don Cook, Whitney Crow and Angus Catchot •
A lot of rice has been planted in the state over the last couple of weeks, and most of it had an insecticide seed treatment as we recommend....
• By Bruce Schultz •
Cool weather is taking its toll on young rice plants in south Louisiana while north Louisiana farmers are still waiting for fields to be dry enough for planting.
Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter agronomist, said rice plant...
The Arkansas Waterfowl Rice Incentive Conservation Enhancement program was developed by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists to help keep waste rice available for ducks, geese and other migrating birds when they pass through each winter.
It has recently been...
• By Peter Bachmann •
Rice shipments, like many other food exports, are becoming increasingly subject to inappropriately low, precautionary maximum residue limits (MRLs) set by overseas markets. Among the shipments most affected are those bound for the European Union,...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Corn and rice growers were off to a strong start, planting 24% and 13% of total planned acreage, respectively. While the numbers were still well behind the five-year average for those crops at this point...
The new Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Poinsett County, Arkansas, received a $2 million boost from Greenway Equipment.
Greenway executives John Conner Jr., chairman; Marshall Stewart, CEO; Steve Smith, chief financial officer; and Bill Midkiff, president, announced the...
• By Whitney Brim-DeForest and Tim Johnson •
The absence of a registered herbicide to control weedy rice in California leaves growers with fewer options to control this important pest. Planting clean seed, as required by the Certification Act, is...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Rice planting is wrapping up in south Louisiana, but wet weather has kept farmers out of the fields in the north.
“It’s moving along pretty fast,” said Todd Fontenot, Louisiana State University AgCenter agent in Evangeline...
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