International conference highlights the need to remain proactive against weedy rice.
• By Luis Espino •
This February, I had the opportunity to travel to Pelotas, Brazil, to attend the Seventh International Temperate Rice Conference. The meeting brings together temperate rice-producing...
As I write this column (March 19), we historically have had at least one rice field planted in Mississippi or are beginning to plant the last week of March. But this year, I fear we will not get the...
Buried deep below the soil surface, groundwater may be out of sight. Increasingly, though, the natural resource is anything but out of mind.
Several efforts, both voluntary and regulatory, are ongoing to try to reduce groundwater overdraft and increase recharge....
These are difficult times for us all, to be sure. As I write this, sitting not in my office with a view of the Washington Monument but rather in my home in suburban Maryland, I can’t help but think...
Prevention is key to avoiding grain bin rescues. Knowing what to do in a bin entrapment emergency also is crucial.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Before Wayne Dulaney’s crew entered a grain bin near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in January, he reminded them...
• By Bruce Linquist •
In the past few weeks, we have been getting updates from someNorthern California irrigation districts that water allocations have been reduced in some areas. We have provided some information in past years that will still...
Do you think you know how to irrigate and stretch your water supply? If so, enter the University of Arkansas' "Most Crop Per Drop" contest.
Unlike regular yield contests that simply look at how many bushels you can produce per...
• By Emily Woodall •
Sporadic sunny skies after three months of steady rain have made planting a mixed bag in Missouri rice country.
On Blake Gerard's operation in nearby Cairo, Illinois, they planted their first rice acre of the...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas agriculture and the state’s rural areas may face the potential for significant disruption in supply chain, labor and government services due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a multi-sector economic impact...
The Louisiana Farm Bureau and the Louisiana State University AgCenter are working together to study the impacts that COVID-19 is having on the Louisiana crawfish industry.
This survey is being used to collect needed information to quantify the impact of...
Riceland Foods of Stuttgart, Arkansas, has named Ben Noble executive vice president and chief operating officer. In his new role, he will oversee the company’s strategic direction product innovation and day-to-day administrative and operational functions.
Noble joined the rice cooperative...
• By Bruce Schultz •
An invasive species of snails has wiped out a 50-acre field of rice, the first time the pest has been known to do that in Louisiana.
LSU AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson said damaged rice and channeled...
• By Steve Linscombe •
Rice planting is progressing rapidly in the Texas rice production belt with some producers finishing earlier than normal.
L.G. Raun, who farms near El Campo, planted his entire crop (CL151) in a three-day span from Feb....
Despite storms that dumped several inches of snow on the Sierra Nevada over March, California's snowpack only remains slightly more than half of average. That's important because it supplies about 30% of California’s annual water needs as it melts...
• By Tommy Butts •
Spray water quality, specifically pH and hardness, can impact the efficacy of numerous pesticides. It has been shown that as water pH increases into more alkaline or basic conditions (pH greater than 7), pesticide active...
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