People can enjoy the annual rice tasting event held in Bolivar County, Mississippi, in a different format this year.
The Rice Festival will be held Sept. 16 from 4 to 7 p.m. in the streets of downtown Merigold.
“This year will...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Each year, University of Arkansas weed scientist Jason Norsworthy screens barnyardgrass seed samples sent in by growers and consultants who suspect the weed is resistant to one or more herbicides. This season will be no...
Justin Chlapecka began Aug. 1 as University of Missouri Extension state rice specialist at the Fisher Delta Research Center. He also serves as an assistant professor in the MU Division of Plant Science and Technology.
In a new partnership between...
• By Fred Miller •
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has appointed Trent Roberts the Endowed Chair in Soil Fertility Research. Roberts is an associate professor of soil fertility and testing for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station...
Texas rice growers need drier conditions to harvest a main crop before quality begins to fade along with hopes for a second harvest, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research expert.
Like many Texas crops along the Gulf Coast this...
The 2021 Rice Field Day is coming Aug. 20 to a device near you! The recent rise in COVID-19 cases around the state prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to move this year’s rice field day...
Dr. Greg Sword, Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology professor, has received $499,000 to determine fall armyworm behaviors and genomic traits that could aid in controlling the agricultural pests.
The three-year project funded by the...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to separate Section 18 Emergency Crisis Exemptions for Intrepid 2F insect growth regulator for use on fall armyworms in Arkansas and Mississippi rice.
The action comes after pyrethroids, which...
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days. As a result, the Horizon Ag Field Day scheduled for Aug. 4 at the university's Stuttgart Rice Research and...
• By Mary Hightower •
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days, with some morphing into online formats.
The Division of Agriculture had four in-person field days on...
A new $1 million grant from NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Program will go toward a study of greenhouse gases and its implications on rice production. Heading the research is University of Arkansas associate professor of biological engineering Benjamin Runkle.
The grant, titled...
Manipulating RNA can allow plants to yield dramatically more crops, as well as increasing drought tolerance, according to a group of scientists from the University of Chicago, Peking University and Guizhou University.
In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for...
Cooler temperatures and widespread rain events across Texas have forage and crop producers scrambling to fight armyworms, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton, said inquiries about the pest have...
University of Missouri officials announced July 14 that over the next nine months, the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station and its collection of farms and centers will undergo a restructuring to make MOAES more efficient, effective and relevant. This restructuring...
• By Bruce Linquist •
Driving this week, I saw quite a few fields with heads starting to show up, so drain time is around the corner. Earlier than normal planting and a warm early season means that the crop...
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