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Don’t wait — take pre-emptive steps now to slow PPO herbicide resistance from developing in Palmer pigweed. By Vicky Boyd, Editor Bob Scott, a University of Arkansas Extension weed scientist, is on a crusade before planting season starts to educate producers about herbicide...

Spurred by the growing popularity of Cajun cuisine and depressed rice prices, crawfish production continues to expand in the southern rice belt. By Vicky Boyd, Editor Laura Hebert is following in the footsteps of her father, Dane Hebert, a rice, soybean...

Modern University of Arkansas Foundation Seed Processing Facility under construction will replace 60-plus-year-old plant at the Rice Research and Extension Center. By Vicky Boyd, Editor Chuck Wilson, director of the University of Arkansas’ Rice Research and Extension Center near Stuttgart, wants...

In the National Football League, statisticians, spotters and officials use flip cards to keep track of players, their numbers, their positions and starting line-ups. But it’s common for different players to start the game than were originally noted. Some changes are...

Citing accidental exposure that has caused injuries and even death, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new worker protection rules for those handling the herbicide, paraquat. Among the changes are: • New closed-system packaging designed to make it nearly impossible to...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service has begun taking applications for the National Rice Regional Conservation Partnership Program in Texas.The program is a collaborative effort among USA Rice, Ducks Unlimited and about 40 other partners and sponsors. The goal is to...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service has opened a second application period for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program – Rice Stewardship Partnership Project in Louisiana rice. Sponsored by USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited, the program will assist rice producers in 20...

The Durand family’s crop mix on their St. Martinville, La., farm includes rice, crawfish and resource protection. Driving down Highway 347 past massive live oaks dripping with Spanish moss is a sea of sugar cane as far as the eye...

By Carroll Smith In a few short weeks, it will be time to head to Memphis, Tenn., to attend the 64th Annual Mid-South Farm & Gin Show. Hundreds of exhibitors will be on hand to provide the latest information suited...

If you’re not involved in routine grocery shopping and preparing the evening meal most nights, you may not realize the role that recipes and recipe development plays in promoting a commodity. And it doesn’t matter the crop, either. Recipes have...

Winston Earnheart, Ph.D. Earnheart Agricultural Consultant Service Tunica, Miss. I grew up in the small Mississippi Delta town of Tunica — 35 miles south of Memphis, Tenn., and 6 miles east of the Mississippi River. My father and four of his brothers...

The EPA recently registered a non-lethal bird-repellent seed treatment for rice. The news traveled swiftly among producers, who have seen firsthand the damage birds can cause to newly seeded rice fields. By Vicky Boyd The Environmental Protection Agency has granted a...

Jim Quackenbush Pest Control Adviser, Wilbur-Ellis Co. Chico, Calif. When it was time for me to choose a career path, I didn’t have much in mind. In the mid 1970s, I attended a career day at Butte College where a pest control...

Aim for efficiency Dr. Jarrod Hardke Arkansas Rice Research Entomologist, University of Arkansas, Cooperative Extension Service jhardke@uaex.edu Repeat after me — when I look to cut costs this year, I will not cut my fertility program. Again, I will not ... you get the idea....

Dow AgroSciences recently unveiled the name of the new broad-spectrum rice herbicide it anticipates launching in 2017 or early 2018 — Loyant herbicide with Rinskor active. Actual availability will depend on Environmental Protection Agency registration, says Hunter Perry, Dow field...