The Louisiana State University AgCenter has partnered with Ag-Analytics to help farmers maintain and improve yields through the use of machine learning and big data.
Ag-Analytics, a secure farm management platform, works with farmers, industry and universities with the goal...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a bill that would make it illegal to mislabel beef, pork, poultry, crawfish, shrimp, meat, sugar or rice products. Senate Bill 152, now referred to as Act 273, also sets strict definitions...
• By Bob Johnson •
A team of researchers is waiting to learn how many of the small chinook salmon that were raised on the healthiest of food in Mike Dewit's rice field in the Yolo Bypass, fitted with microtransmitters,...
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a Section 18 emergency exemption for Intrepid 2F Insecticide for use in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Merced, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, California.
You need to make certain Intrepid 2F Insecticide is...
The eight district winners in the 72nd annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program have been selected, representing the diversity of Arkansas agriculture, the state’s largest industry.
The district winners will now be judged to determine a state winner,...
BASF and Nutrien Ag Solutions are collaborating on a scouting application that enables growers and agronomists to instantly identify weeds and diseases within their fields. The Xarvio Scouting app is offered within the Nutrien Ag Solutions Customer Portal, according...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
There is already dew in the mornings and rain is in the forecast. Even with planting being later this year, it may still be time to start scouting for leaf blast in susceptible rice, particularly...
• By Bruce Schultz •
A Louisiana State University AgCenter economist had good news for rice farmers at the Vermilion Parish rice field day, June 11.
“Optimism is high that with recaptured market share in core markets, the outlook for rice...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
Preventative measures including land preparation, variety selection, seed treatment, timing for planting, nutrient and water management are key to suppressing most rice diseases. Implementing best cultural practices typically results in a healthy, flourishing crop. Under...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture will relocate to the Kansas City region from the Washington, D.C., area. The other areas that had been considered were North Carolina and Indiana.
“Following a...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
If have fields with a history of hydrogen sulfide toxicity which led to a condition called autumn decline as in Figure 1 and 2, you need to begin scouting two weeks after establishing permanent flood....
The third week of March is usually the beginning of rice planting season in Mississippi, but fields were not dry enough to hold tractors until May in most locations.
Many growers were still scrambling to get rice in the ground...
As if Mid-South producers don't have enough on their minds with rutted fields, flooding and late planting, now an influx of insect pests has made their lives even more difficult. And it's not limited to just one crop, either.
Cotton
“This...
• By Trent Roberts, Rick Norman and Jarrod Hardke •
Preflood nitrogen (N) applications in rice are very important for setting yield potential in rice as two of the three yield components (tiller number and seeds per panicle) are set...
Canadian Health Agency’s Feed and Food Divisions have approved the FullPage Rice Cropping Solution from RiceTec and Adama that will allow unrestricted planting of and harvesting of FullPage rice products.
The production system represents a new generation of improved imidazolinone...
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