Rice acreage may be down in Mississippi this season, but the amount of ground devoted to rice research at Mississippi State University's Stoneville research station is as high as Extension agronomist Bobby Golden can remember.
This year, the U.S. Department...
Rice growers in Arkansas just got a little more help in their battle against insect pests when the University of Arkansas hired Dr. Nick Bateman as the new Extension rice entomologist.
Bateman — an Arkansas native — is no stranger...
BASF Corp. and the Israeli company, Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd. recently announced they will be partnering on developing herbicide-tolerant non-GMO crops using the Kaiima's proprietary EP technology platform.
Although the technology is applicable to most crops, Kaiima has focused on a...
Southeast Missouri State University will host an agriculture technology workshop series, beginning Aug. 1, to help agribusinesses gain insight into innovations and regional resources available to them.
The series will meet each Tuesday and Thursday during the first two weeks...
Growers host farm-scale demonstrations to learn more about the new weed-control system.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Kaplan, La., rice producer Christian Richard, who has a 20-acre demonstration field of Provisia rice, looks forward to having the herbicide-tolerant system as another weedy rice...
At the June 28 Louisiana State University AgCenter rice field day, members of the Louisiana rice industry took the opportunity to recognize Dr. Steve Linscombe, who is retiring on Sept. 30 after 35 years of service.
For most of those...
This year's Arkansas Rice Expo, Aug. 4, in Stuttgart, has something for just about everyone.
New tools for soil fertility, new weed control technologies and live cooking demonstrations are just a few of the topics on the agenda.
Doors at the...
Horizon Ag has hired industry veteran Hugh Beckham as director of sales and marketing.
Beckham, whose career includes sales leadership and management with DuPont Pioneer, Monsanto and SF Services, brings more than 25 years of experience in the Southern seed business....
Growers interested in the new Provisia Rice System will get a chance to see the first commercially released variety in a large-scale planting at Horizon Ag's June 27 field day in Kaplan, La.
Developed by BASF through traditional breeding techniques, Provisia...
The Environmental Protection Agency as well as the California Department of Pesticide Registration have registered Butte herbicide for California water-seeded rice.
The herbicide is a premix of benzobicyclon, a mode of action, and halosulfuron-methyl, marketed as Sandea in California. The...
The U.S. Senate confirmed former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as the secretary of agriculture, April 24, on an 87-11 vote.
As head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Perdue will be in charge of a staff of about 100,000 employees....
ChemChina and Swiss-based Syngenta AG have agreed to divest three types of pesticides to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their proposed merger would harm competition in several U.S. markets.
The European Union made a similar announcement concerning the mergers...
University of California Extension entomologist Larry Godfrey, a 26-year member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty, died April 18 after a battle with cancer. He was 60.
Godfrey was a fixture at the California Rice Field...
Wilmington, Del.-based Nichino America Inc. and Kawasaki, Japan-based Kyoyu Agri Co. Ltd. have signed a licensing agreement that would allow Nichino to market and sell the rice herbicide, pyraclonil, in California.
The product is not currently registered for use in...
Horizon Ag and BASF have reached a formal agreement to launch the Provisia Rice System in 2018, providing a new tool for post-emergence control of a broad range of grasses, including weedy rice.
Like the Clearfield Production System for rice,...
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