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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reminds our nation’s farmers and ranchers that the deadline to respond to the 2022 Census of Agriculture is Feb. 6. Producers can respond online at agcounts.usda.gov or by mail. Last month,...

⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅ USA RICE The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board (ARRPB) met here yesterday to hear activity reports and funding requests from USA Rice and The Rice Foundation. USA Rice President & CEO Betsy Ward presented her organization’s...

⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅ USA RICE More than 225 rice growers and industry representatives gathered here yesterday for a joint meeting of the Arkansas Rice Federation and Arkansas Rice Council as planning for the 2023 season and Farm Bill year...

⋅ BY TRACY COURAGE ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture The Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference has been educating Arkansas farmers and other agriculture professionals for a quarter of a century on how to use new technology and...

⋅ BY LESLEY DIXON ⋅ Hundreds of rice farmers, millers, and other members of the Texas rice community gathered at the El Campo Civic Center on Wednesday for the 2023 Western Rice Belt Production Conference.  The day’s program included reports...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture Rice farmers with questions about funding contained in the omnibus bill signed last month by President Biden can find answers in a fact sheet released Friday by the University...

New rice varieties shine in Arkansas research highlights The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the Division of Agriculture’s research arm, released four new rice varieties in 2022. CLL18 is a high-yielding Clearfield variety that will be available to growers in 2023 through...

Don’t fence me in Seed selection decisions start earlier every year, with many farmers making decisions by December. Even with some decisions made, there’s still a lot of time before the start of the season to fine-tune those selections and...

Putting the ‘good’ in Goodland Farms. ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ Associate Editor H aving grown up in the expansive rice country of Northeast Arkansas, David Caudell never had any intention of moving to Texas. However, after coming down to visit an area...

⋅ BY JUSTIN CHLAPECKA ⋅ A s you head up the Mississippi River, the Delta soils run out pretty quick after you hit the Missouri state line. From south to north, there are about 85 miles of soils suitable for rice...

A forecast for U.S. rice imports through 2060 and some reflections on how the world rice price really works What you need to know about the rice market in the United States is that the rice market in the Americas,...

⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅ U of A System Division of Agriculture T he University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Anheuser-Busch are partnering to research and promote resource conservation for rice farming in Arkansas and the surrounding region. Their focus...

A new Congress will be seated this month, and one of the biggest items to cross their desks will be the new Farm Bill. Farm Bills are never easy, and considering this is likely to be the first Farm Bill to...

B.C. Forbes, the founder of Forbes magazine said, “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.” Although Forbes is speaking the truth in this statement, how successful and bountiful...