A global health crisis and its attendant economic impacts, unusually wet weather and an ongoing trade dispute with China had a discouraging effect on Arkansas growers’ acreage decisions for some key crops in 2020, even as farmers went all...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has released its 2020 acreage report shows U.S. rice growers planted slightly more than 2.9 million acres this season.
That compares to about 2.5 million acres in 2019. This figures are...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
This is a reminder for you to take samples of rice roots from your fields to gauge how much the wet conditions this year followed by the normal permanent flood have affected your rice.
This note...
A paper written by a doctoral student and faculty of the department of food science in the University of Arkansas has been named an “editor's pick” by the Cereals & Grains Association.
The paper, “Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Medium-Sized...
Jim Harper, a rice, crawfish, sugarcane and soybean farmer in Rapides Parish, has been elected as the 12th president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau.
Harper now leads the state’s largest general farm organization at a pivotal moment where farmers face...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Adama has rolled out two off-patent herbicides for rice this season and has two more planned for introduction next year, providing they receive registration.
This season, the company introduced Vopak 3ME, a micro-encapsulated formulation of clomazone,...
Friends and employees of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture honored outgoing Cooperative Extension Service director Rick Cartwright June 26 with a $40,000 scholarship endowment created and named in honor of him and his wife, Lynette.
The Rick...
Composite binders are important materials used in furniture, flooring and other consumer products, but they can pose health hazards.
Now, Purdue University researchers have developed a lower-cost, sustainable and greener method for producing composite boards – a method that is...
• By Lydia Holmes •
Dr. Merle Anders was honored recently as part of Field to Market's 2020 Trusted Adviser Spotlight Series, recognizing his outstanding leadership in implementing innovative approaches to scale sustainable agriculture. Through his role with the USA...
• By Drew Gholson and Dan Roach •
Alternate wetting and drying is a water-saving technology that farmers can use to reduce the amount of irrigation water used in rice fields without any yield penalty.
In AWD, farmers allow the flood...
• By Dr. Steve Linscombe •
California rice growers are watching their thermometers as much as they are observing their rice fields these days. Daily high temperatures are forecasted to be well above 100 degrees through Saturday in Colusa —...
Bob Scott has been named director of Arkansas’ Cooperative Extension Service, the organization that delivers the education outreach portion of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s land-grant mission.
Mark Cochran, vice president-agriculture for the University of Arkansas System,...
The California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, which hosts the annual California Rice Field Day at the Rice Experiment Station in Biggs, has decided to cancel the event this year in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. This includes the annual...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
We have received multiple phone calls over the past week about rice water weevils, and based on our observations, it is trending toward a bad rice water weevil year. This...
Feral hogs continue to be a major problem in Arkansas, causing more than $19 million yearly to the state’s agriculture industry alone, according the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. In addition to crop losses, feral hogs damage pastures, destroy wildlife...
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