⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Jarrod Hardke has a word for the 2022 rice season — erratic.
“The year began with dramatically higher input costs, especially for fertilizer and diesel fuel,” said Hardke, extension rice...
2021 CY PLC payment rates for long grain/medium grain rice
Dr. Michael A. Deliberto, LSU AgCenter Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, says the 2021 national marketing year average (MYA) prices for long grain rice and medium grain rice have been published...
Feral hogs cost Louisiana farmers $91 million annually.
⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅
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rom rooting up crops to destroying farm infrastructure, Louisiana’s growing population of feral hogs causes $91.1 million in damage to agricultural and timber lands each year, according to...
Horizon Ag, Rice Farming and USA Rice are proud to bring you the recipients of the 2022 Rice Awards. The program highlights three honorees for their contributions to the success of the U.S. rice industry through the Rice Farmer of the...
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ith the past season in your rearview mirror, take time to relax, say farewell to the year, and review which cultivars did well and which ones didn’t. Also, check out university trial results to see how different cultivars performed...
The dry season
We started the year focused on the drastic increases in crop input prices for the 2022 season. Our attention was shifted once the spring rains finally stopped at the end of May and stayed away for 50+...
Discovering furrow-irrigated rice as an industry player.
⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅
Associate Editor
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ow rice has made strides over the past few years as growers have learned more about this different method of growing rice. Referred to interchangeably as furrow-irrigated rice,...
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efore I began this job, someone told me that rice is a “whole different kind of cat” when it comes to crop production. I grew up in a land full of cotton, interlaced with some corn, milo, soybeans and...
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nother calendar year is coming to a close, and while it wasn’t the worst year in recent memory, I’m certainly fine to turn the calendar page.
From where I sit, just outside our nation’s capital, it felt like I was...
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold the District 8 Farm and Ranch Seminar on Dec. 8 in Waco.
The event will be from 7 a.m.-4 p.m. at McLennan Community College Emergency Services Building, 7601 Steinbeck Bend Road.
The cost is...
⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅
LSU AgCenter
When drought conditions set in across Louisiana this summer, many farmers resorted to irrigation to try to save their crops. While it helped preserve yields and quality in some cases, the sharp uptick in...
⋅ BY Dr. MICHAEL A. DELIBERTO ⋅
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness
The 2021 national marketing year average (MYA) prices for long grain rice and medium grain rice have been published by the USDA and are...
⋅ BY JAMISON CRUCE ⋅
Jason Wheeler, a grain merchandising specialist at White Commercial and immediate past chair of the USA Rice Futures Contract Working Group, has been appointed to represent USA Rice on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)...
⋅ BY BONNIE A. COBLENTZ ⋅
MSU Extension Service
“Snow” appearing on the sides of highways and bare ground visible for miles is a sure indication that row crop harvest in Mississippi is well underway.
As of early October, the majority of the...
⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Researchers in Arkansas and Missouri have confirmed two genetic pathways that lead to herbicide resistance in weedy rice, a major pest for Arkansas rice growers.
Most herbicide-resistant weedy rice in...
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