• By Bruce Linquist •
In most years, California rice farmers manage their winter straw by flooding a field where the rice straw has either been chopped or chopped and incorporated. In these cases, the flood water helps to ensure...
• By Ching Lee •
Favorable weather conditions and fewer acres of planted rice this year should allow California farmers to remove their crop without worries of autumn rainfall complicating harvest.
All eyes are now on how much precipitation the coming...
After a one-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the USA Rice Outlook Conference is once again planned as an in-person event, Dec. 5-7, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
While some elements of the event might be a bit different due to safety...
• By Jarrod Hardke and Trent Roberts •
Urea prices up. Phosphate prices up. Potash prices up. Diesel prices up. Rice prices up.
So there’s at least one highlight in that list. A number of conversations are coming up about how...
Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed new members to the Arkansas State Plant Board to fill positions left vacant under an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
“The Plant Board is one of the most significant commissions for Arkansas agriculture,...
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Crop farmers should take this adage to heart when marketing their grain, advised University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist Martyn Foreman.
“If you haven’t already developed a post-harvest grain marketing...
Despite the cancellation of the Horizon Ag Arkansas Field Days in Stuttgart and Jonesboro this summer due to Covid-19, the company wanted to provide growers an opportunity to learn more about its offerings in the Delta — Clearfield varieties...
• By Steve Linscombe •
Rice harvest is well underway in the northern rice production area of the Mid-South where a high percentage of U.S. rice is grown. In general, yields have been good to excellent while head rice milling...
Research advancements in rice and soybeans, two of the top agricultural commodities in Arkansas, will be the focus of a virtual field day 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, presented by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
The online...
The University of California Cooperative Extension will hold four educational grower sessions this fall, including one on rice weed management.
The Oct. 11 rice weed session will be in a Zoom format from 3-4 p.m. PDT. If growers want to...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation has tapped Dr. Dustin Harrell as its new director of the Rice Experiment Station near Biggs, California.
“We couldn’t be more excited,” said Glenn rice grower and foundation chairman Gary...
Arkansas Gov. Governor Hutchinson, along with Tim and Robin Ralston of Ralston Family Farms, recently announced that a rice shipment from their farm is the first Arkansas rice to be exported to China.
Through a contract with a private importer...
The Missouri Rice Research & Merchandising Council’s Annual Field Day, originally scheduled in-person for Aug. 19, is now available virtually at https://www.missouririce.com/2021-virtual-rice-field-day/. The council hopes to hold the event in person in 2022.
Among the presenters are:
– David Martin, Missouri...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Despite a year featuring record flooding, heavy insect pressure and a near brush with a recent hurricane, Arkansas rice is moving toward a harvest that may see near-record yields on par with the past several...
While insiders know U.S.-grown rice is one of the most sustainable and responsibly grown crops in the world, telling that story is increasingly important. To help recognize the crop’s unique environmental qualities, USA Rice launched a Sustainability Award in...
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