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It’s that time of year again! Planting is just beginning, if not already well underway, and the speed of the year seems to be picking up. In keeping with the busy time of year, this month’s issue has a...

I grew up in the small community of McGehee on our family farm. I was 10 years old when the historic 1980 drought happened, and I can remember my dad trying desperately to irrigate what we could but losing most of...

Gene for Cold Tolerance in Rice Offers New Opportunities for Breeding Resilient Varieties A gene called COLD6 contributes to cold tolerance in rice, potentially offering a pathway to use molecular design to breed a rice variety with higher resistance to...

Don’t Let Them Up The best weed control recommendation out there continues to be “don’t let them come up.” Overlapping residuals is the consistent theme of weed control recommendations in rice, especially for grasses. We certainly want to properly utilize burndown...

Rice Farming Magazine and Corteva Honor Independent Consultants Rice Farming magazine and Corteva were honored to present Mr. Gary Dodd (pictured second from left in left photo) of Yuba City, California, as the 2024 Rice Consultant of the Year. Dodd is...

⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅ California Farm Bureau New technologies have transformed the world during the past half-century. Agriculture has been no exception, with the emergence of aerial drones, autonomous tractors, and other equipment changing the way crops are planted, cared...

Manipulating Post-Harvest Rice Fields for Maximizing Season-Long Food Supply for Pond-Raised Red Swamp Crawfish in Louisiana  BY MAHALA "HALEY" GAMBILL & MARK SHIRLEY ⋅ LSU AgCenter Crawfish aquaculture is the most profitable aquaculture endeavor in Louisiana, representing roughly 69% of the total gross farm value...

Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumna Confirmed ⋅ BY KATHERINE HANCOCK ⋅ Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences former student Brooke Rollins ’94 has been confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. She is the first Texan...

⋅ BY MICHAEL KLEIN ⋅ USA Rice More than 300 rice researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans recently for the 40th biennial Rice Technical Working Group meeting to discuss everything from agronomy, breeding, and cytogenics to utilization, weed...

⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅ It was a packed house at the Bolivar County Extension Auditorium for the Mississippi Rice Council Annual meeting recently. President Kirk Satterfield welcomed and thanked attendees and provided both his President’s report and the Mississippi Rice...

⋅ BY BRAD WATKINS ⋅ High input prices in recent years have significantly reduced profit margins for rice producers in the Mid-South. The negative impact of tightening profit margins is felt most acutely by rice producers renting cropland. A significant...

When you think about the saying, “chaos is a ladder,” trade may not come to mind for most, but it does for me. Amidst all the Washington chaos about the short- and long-term impacts of import tariffs and retaliatory tariffs...

Gary Dodd didn’t have any agricultural roots to speak of. He was a single child of a father and mother, who both served in the United States Marine Corps, (his father a career Marine). Therefore, they moved around a...

I just finished the third of nine sessions of the Governor Dolph Briscoe, Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership program, known more commonly as “TALL.” This two-year program is administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and has been...

Growing up across three east Arkansas counties, St. Francis, Monroe, and Arkansas, significantly shaped who I am. As a little girl, I watched my father have a deep appreciation of the outdoors, and anything that involved rice farming. Our...