• By Emily Woodall •
Sporadic sunny skies after three months of steady rain have made planting a mixed bag in Missouri rice country.
On Blake Gerard's operation in nearby Cairo, Illinois, they planted their first rice acre of the...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas agriculture and the state’s rural areas may face the potential for significant disruption in supply chain, labor and government services due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a multi-sector economic impact...
The Louisiana Farm Bureau and the Louisiana State University AgCenter are working together to study the impacts that COVID-19 is having on the Louisiana crawfish industry.
This survey is being used to collect needed information to quantify the impact of...
Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, Arkansas, has named Ben Noble executive vice president and chief operating officer. In his new role, he will oversee the company’s strategic direction product innovation and day-to-day administrative and operational functions.
Noble joined the rice cooperative...
• By Bruce Schultz •
An invasive species of snails has wiped out a 50-acre field of rice, the first time the pest has been known to do that in Louisiana.
LSU AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson said damaged rice and channeled...
• By Steve Linscombe •
Rice planting is progressing rapidly in the Texas rice production belt with some producers finishing earlier than normal.
L.G. Raun, who farms near El Campo, planted his entire crop (CL151) in a three-day span from Feb....
Despite storms that dumped several inches of snow on the Sierra Nevada over March, California's snowpack only remains slightly more than half of average. That's important because it supplies about 30% of California’s annual water needs as it melts...
• By Tommy Butts •
Spray water quality, specifically pH and hardness, can impact the efficacy of numerous pesticides. It has been shown that as water pH increases into more alkaline or basic conditions (pH greater than 7), pesticide active...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers intend to plant about 1.39 million acres of rice in 2020, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released March 31. The acreage is a rebound from 2019’s 1.15 million acres but...
U.S. rice imports continue to increase, setting a third consecutive record and now accounting for 20% of the domestic market.
In a recent Rice Yearbook, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service projects imports of 32.5 million hundredweight (rough...
U.S. rice producers say they plan to plant 2.84 million acres this season, up 12% from the previous year’s planting intentions of 2.54 million acres, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service’s recently released planting...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Crawfish producer Allen McLain’s business has dropped dramatically because of the coronavirus’ impact on the restaurant business.
“We’re struggling. It’s not looking good,” said McLain of Abbeville, Lousiana.
A big portion of his business is selling his...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Finally, some rice is in the ground. Barely.
Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said Thursday that a handful of growers began water-seeding rice, a technique that typically...
The stage is set for more spring flooding in Missouri, said University of Missouri Extension climatologist Pat Guinan.
“A lot will depend on the weather patterns that set up over the region in the next few weeks,” he said.
Missouri farmers,...
• By Emily Woodall •
Growers in Arkansas' rice belt are enduring a repeat of the 2019 spring — unseasonably wet weather that has mostly kept them out of their fields.
"We had about five days in a row a few...
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