Horizon Ag and BASF have partnered to offer rice farmers zero percent APR financing through Rabo AgriFinance for Clearfield and Provisia varieties and certain BASF crop protection purchases for the 2019 season.
The Rabo AgriFinance program is in addition to...
The Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association has filled its Agricultural Technology and Management Conference, Feb. 11-13, to the brim with a broad array of general session topics and break-out sessions for consultants, applicators and growers.
General session topics range from bollworm...
The LSU AgCenter will hold a series of meetings to help rice farmers prepare for their 2019 crop.
The educational sessions will provide farmers with advice on choosing varieties, land preparation, controlling pests and the new farm bill.
Farmers also will...
A year of weather extremes — from a hard-frozen winter to a summer of drought to seemingly endless rains in the fall — took its toll on both rice and soybean, two of Arkansas’s top crops. Rice, however, emerged...
Researchers in Southeast Missouri State University’s Department of Agriculture along with the Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council have released for the 2019 season a new rice variety bred for southeast Missouri.
Called MM17, it is a semi-dwarf, mid-season, medium-grain...
Chris and Judy Isbell of Humnoke, Arkansas, were named the 2018 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year at the recent Arkansas Farm Bureau’s annual convention.
They will now compete with 10 southeastern state winners in the 2019 Swisher Sweets/Sunbelt Expo...
This season, University of California Cooperative Extension rice farm advisers were contacted by several growers and pest control advisers to inspect plants suspected to be weedy rice.
When the identification was difficult, farm advisers grew them in the greenhouse to determine...
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture rice research may lead to more sustainable crop production in the state and around the world.
The quest for increased sustainability in agriculture and other industries includes examining greenhouse gases and how they’re...
In early February, growers and handlers will receive a ballot from the California Department of Food and Agriculture for the California Rice Commission referendum. Recipients are asked to take a moment to fill it out and return it.
Every five...
RiceTec plans limited launch of FullPage herbicide-tolerant hybrids this season.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For the 2019 season, Alvin, Texas-based RiceTec plans a limited release of four long-grain hybrids developed to tolerate over-the-top applications of Preface and Postscript IMI herbicides...
The Louisiana Agricultural Technology & Management Conference sponsored by the Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association will be held Feb. 11-13, 2019, at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, Louisiana.
Jay Mahaffey will be featured in the pre-conference symposium on Monday morning, Feb....
Although fall-applied residual herbicides are recommended to control glyphosate-resistant Italian ryegrass, some can be detrimental to the following year's rice crop, according to recently published research.
Involved in the project were Ben Lawrence, a Mississippi State University graduate student; Dr....
Lundberg Family Farms of Richvale, California, was selected as the recipient of the 2018 California Leopold Conservation Award.
It is presented annually by the Sand County Foundation, Sustainable Conservation and the California Farm Bureau Federation.
Named in honor of renowned conservationist...
South Louisiana rice farmers are finishing up their ratoon or second harvest. The yields have been good and are needed because of lower rice prices.
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LSU AgCenter correspondent Craig Gautreaux contributed this video story from Acadia Parish.
IGI Carbon Dioxide, which previously had been registered for fumigating pests of stored grain, recently received a Section 2(ee) recommendation for burrowing rodents.
It is used with the Eliminator application probe designed specifically to treat pests in underground burrows and...
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