⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅
California Farm Bureau
New technologies have transformed the world during the past half-century. Agriculture has been no exception, with the emergence of aerial drones, autonomous tractors, and other equipment changing the way crops are planted, cared...
Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumna Confirmed
⋅ BY KATHERINE HANCOCK ⋅
Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences former student Brooke Rollins ’94 has been confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. She is the first Texan...
⋅ BY MICHAEL KLEIN ⋅
USA Rice
More than 300 rice researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans recently for the 40th biennial Rice Technical Working Group meeting to discuss everything from agronomy, breeding, and cytogenics to utilization, weed...
⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅
It was a packed house at the Bolivar County Extension Auditorium for the Mississippi Rice Council Annual meeting recently. President Kirk Satterfield welcomed and thanked attendees and provided both his President’s report and the Mississippi Rice...
⋅ BY BRAD WATKINS ⋅
High input prices in recent years have significantly reduced profit margins for rice producers in the Mid-South. The negative impact of tightening profit margins is felt most acutely by rice producers renting cropland. A significant...
Gary Dodd didn’t have any agricultural roots to speak of. He was a single child of a father and mother, who both served in the United States Marine Corps, (his father a career Marine). Therefore, they moved around a...
Breeding Rice to Withstand High Nighttime Stress
⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Rice plants can deal with the heat during the day, but when the sun goes down, they need to chill...
My first thoughts of rice being grown in Texas was in agronomy class at Texas Tech when Dr. Clark Harvey told the class about rice in the state. Raised on the High Plains near Lubbock, I could not imagine...
⋅ BY RONNIE LEVY ⋅
U.S. long-grain rice has long been considered the quality standard of the world. In recent years, however, a number of both domestic as well as international customers have complained about the quality of some southern...
Who is AgriCapture, and What are They Doing for Rice?
AgriCapture, a Nashville, Tennessee-based carbon credit company established in 2021, is taking the rice industry by storm. Read the following Q&A with president Tyler Hull to find out more about...
⋅ BY JUDITH EPPELE ⋅
University of California Bonnie Reiss Leading on Climate Fellow
Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake...
AgCenter Researchers Join International Colleagues to Study Disease Posing Growing Threat to Rice
⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅
LSU AGCENTER
A disease called false smut is posing a growing threat to the global rice crop, and LSU AgCenter scientists are part of...
⋅ BY XIN-GEN (SHANE) ZHOU, LINA BERNAOLA, NUPUR SARKAR, GARY BRADSHAW, SAM RUSTOM, AND SABIN KHANAL ⋅
A new viral disease, Hoja Blanca, caused by the rice hoja blanca virus (RHBV), has been visually identified in 1,400 areas of ratooned...
Horizon Ag provides Clearfield® and Provisia® varieties that combine outstanding yield potential and agronomics. Then we help maximize the performance potential of the seed with insights and best management practices gleaned from working with universities and farmers.
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Horizon Ag, Rice Farming and USA Rice are proud to bring you the recipients of the 2024 Rice Awards. The program highlights three honorees for their contributions to the success of the U.S. rice industry through the Rice Farmer...
