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Weed management in 2023: What can we expect? Coming out of 2022, roughly half of all California rice fields were left fallowed last year. Others may have been fallowed for two seasons, and many of us have questions about what...

Keith Shelton honored as 2022 Rice Consultant of the Year Keith Shelton, the 2022 Rice Consultant of the Year, was honored at an awards reception at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. Shelton owns and operates Shelton Consulting Service Inc. in...

Louisiana governor said farmers have ‘special responsibility’ to protect resources. ⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ From the fertile soils of its farmlands to waterways that are crucial to commerce, Louisiana’s natural resources are key to the success of agriculture — and...

Omnibus legislation authorizes USDA to make payments to rice farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently previewed plans to provide up to $250 million in assistance to rice farmers and what steps they can take to be prepared to sign up when...

Irrigation Yield Contest promotes irrigation water management practices in rice, corn and soybeans. ⋅ BY TRACY COURAGE ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture When it comes to the annual Arkansas Irrigation Yield Contest, less is always more. The annual University of...

California farmers expected to get increased water allocations in 2023. ⋅ BY CHRISTINE SOUZA ⋅ California Farm Bureau Federation Winter storms that bolstered the Sierra Nevada snowpack and added to California reservoirs prompted federal and state water managers to announce increases in...

Navigating rice crops and water restrictions. ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅  Associate Editor As a former Texas A&M Yell Leader and current farmer in Eagle Lake, Texas, Tom Kelley never doubted for a second he’d end up back in farming.  Stemming from a...

In many ways, 2022 was a disappointing and challenging year for the rice industry. After the threat of railroad strikes, India and China flouting their WTO obligations, historic drought, geopolitical unrest from Ukraine to Haiti, skyrocketing input costs and...

Tony Robbins, who has been billed as the nation’s No. 1 life and business strategist, once said, “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” The past three years have been...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) previewed plans to provide up to $250 million in assistance to rice farmers and what steps they can take to be prepared to sign up when the program is released later this spring. USDA is...

⋅ BY MICHAEL KLEIN ⋅ Arkansas Senator John Boozman, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, spent the morning here yesterday with rice farmers from around the country who were in town for the USA Rice Farmer Fly-in. Boozman talked about...

⋅ BY RYAN McGEENEY ⋅ University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture A national body of rice researchers has awarded the Distinguished Service Award to Bob Scott, senior associate vice president – extension for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. In...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Farmers urged Congress strengthen price and revenue support programs, take a new look at crop insurance and streamline the way for migrant labor during a Farm Bill listening session...

⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Managing feral swine — the land-damaging, disease-carrying wild hogs that roam throughout the country — starts with good data, according to Nana Tian, a forest economics researcher for the Arkansas Forest...

⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Rice Research and Extension Center seek to develop rice that is more resilient in the face of climate change...