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Crawfish may spend a good part of their life in water, but flooding at the wrong time could affect reproduction and survival. One of the keys to the 2017 season will be how fast producers are able to pump...

Flanked by members of Arkansas'  rice, soybean and wheat promotion boards, officials with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture dedicated a new foundation seed processing plant, Aug. 9, outside of Stuttgart. The state-of-the-art facility, which was built on university...

Horizon Ag continues its quest to provide the industry improved grain quality and better agronomics with the introduction of two long-grain and one medium-grain Clearfield variety for the 2017 season. The releases, which are naturally tolerant to the imazethapyr herbicide, are...

RiceTec continues to push the yield limits of commercial rice with the introduction of the new Clearfield hybrid, RT7311 CL, for the 2017 season. At the same time, the Houston, Texas-based firm is working to improve grain quality, a...

Growers turn to decades-old chemistry to fight ALS-resistant rice flatsedge. By Vicky Boyd Editor Every time Ricky Posey and his stepbrother, Joe Ray Melvin, looked out their shop door near Hunter, Ark., they saw a big patch of ALS-resistant rice flatsedge that...

Think you have some pretty good yields? See how you fare against fellow California producers with the University of California Cooperative Extension's Rice Yield Contest. This season, UCCE expanded it to include the entire Sacramento Valley. Last year, it just held...

Sacramento, Calif.-based Farmers' Rice Cooperative named Rick Rhody as its new CEO. He replaces Kirk Messick, who had been serving as interim CEO since the departure of Frank Bragg III. "“There are many challenges that FRC and the rice industry...

About 100 rice producers attending the Horizon Ag Louisiana field day learned about new Clearfield varieties with improved agronomics that should help reinforce their economic sustainability. “We can produce record amounts of rice every season, but if farmers aren’t profitable...

Texas A&M AgriLife researchers gave rice growers highlights of their new product pipeline during the recent 42nd annual rice field day at the David R. Watermann Rice Research Station in Eagle Lake, Texas. Rice breeder Dr. Rodante Tabien has two...

Under cloudy skies and cool temperatures, attendees of Louisiana State University AgCenter's 107th annual rice field day in Crowley June 29 got a glimpse of several new varieties, hybrids and crop protection materials in the pipeline. Among those were a Clearfield...

For the past two years, breeders with Crop Production Services have quietly been working to develop rice hybrids with improved agronomic traits. By Vicky Boyd Editor The first resulting commercial hybrid, named Express, is set for market introduction in time for...

While some crop protection companies are reducing their presence in the agricultural industry because of cyclic downturns, Valent U.S.A. is investing in its future with expansion and new construction projects. By Vicky Boyd Editor The Walnut Creek, Calif.-based firm is nearing...

Vicky Boyd, editor of Rice Farming and Soybean South and managing editor of Cotton Farming magazines, took top honors in Fresno County (Calif.) Farm Bureau's 22nd Annual Journalism Awards, Farm Trade Print category. Boyd wrote about how California's drought and...

Mississippi State University's Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station recently released a new long-grain conventional variety adapted to the state's soils and climates. Dubbed "Thad," the variety is named after U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. Thad has yields similar to Rex, released...

In the first of a series of field days, Louisiana State University's AgCenter highlighted two varieties it released in 2015 that are receiving good reviews. CL153, a Clearfield-tolerant long-grain, has less chalk and better disease resistance than CL151. The mills...