"Emerging Technologies for Texas Rice" will be the theme for the 71st annual field day, July 12, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont, 1509 Aggie Drive.
The free event begins with field tours at 8 a.m., an...
Eight family farms, including three rice operations, were named district winners in the 71st annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program.
The district winners will now be judged to determine a state winner to be announced Dec. 6 at the...
At its recent annual meeting at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, the Delta Council announced a new president and seven vice presidents who will serve for the coming year.
This year’s president is Woods Eastland of Indianola. A retired...
The California Rice Commission is seeking nominations to fill open seats on its board of directors.
The following seats are open by district:
• District 1 (Butte County) – 2 member; 3 alternate
• District 2 (Colusa County) – 2 member; 4...
As the nation’s No. 1 rice producer, Arkansas can have an outsized effect on U.S. rice production one year to the next, depending on fates largely tied to the weather. And 2018 is shaping up to be anything but...
As rice acreage expands in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas is working on a research center to enhance production techniques and best management practices for the grain in areas north of Interstate 40 and west of Crowley’s Ridge.
“Our immediate...
Rice farmers at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station field day on June 27 will hear about research being conducted to help them grow a better crop.
“This is an opportunity for our faculty members to tell...
When Monheim, Germany-based Bayer closes its expected acquisition of Monsanto on June 7, the new company will drop the 117-year-old name Monsanto and will operate under the Bayer umbrella.
The acquired products will retain their brand names and will become...
Dwight LeBlanc, Louisiana Wildlife Services state director based in Port Allen, is seeking Louisiana rice producers who have had feral hog damage to their crop to participate in a study.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services is conducting feral...
A never-before-described gene that gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
Rice...
The Rice Foundation is accepting applications for the 2019 Rice Leadership Development Program. Rice producers or industry-related professionals between the ages of 25 and 45 are eligible to apply for the program. The application deadline is Oct. 5.
The Rice...
A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing to develop a rice variety that produces 25-31 percent more grain and would have been virtually impossible to create through traditional breeding.
The...
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension has scheduled the 43rd annual Eagle Lake Rice Field Day for 4 p.m., June 26, at the Wintermann Rice Research Station on Farm-to-Market Road 102 just north of Eagle Lake.
The field day will offer...
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The winner of the inaugural PNW (Pacific Northwest) Gluten-Free Homebrewing Competition is a beer made with rice.
Dad's Red Ale, an American Amber...
Rice remains sensitive to soybean harvest-aid drift late into the season, according to MSU research.
By Vicky Boyd, Editor —
For the past few seasons, Mississippi State University Extension Rice Agronomist Bobby Golden and MSU graduate student Justin McCoy have received...
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