Solar systems help growers cut electric bills while raising their environmental stature.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Chris Isbell, a partner in a family-owned farming operation near Humnoke, Arkansas, looks at his 300-kilowatt solar-generation system as just another crop.
“Essentially, we’re farming...
Heavy rainfall has been a challenge as rice farmers strive to get their 2019 crop planted.
Farmers were able to get much of their crop planted during almost three weeks of dry weather, but rainfall during the first week of...
After a bruising 2017, in which substantial spring flooding cost growers in the state an estimated $175 million in lost production and damaged acreage, rice growers saw higher production in 2018 than in any of the three previous years,...
Weedy rice is neither wild rice nor commercial rice, but instead rice gone rogue that has shed some traits important to people.
It also is an incredibly aggressive, potentially detrimental weed that pops up almost everywhere rice is grown, and...
• By Trent Roberts •
With current Mississippi River levels above flood stage along all of Arkansas’ eastern border, there are increasing concerns that limited barge traffic combined with reduced access to Arkansas ports may tighten fertilizer stocks during periods...
Planted rice acres for 2019 are only expected to decline about 3 percent from 2018, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Services' Prospective Plantings Report released March 29. Altogether, growers say, they plan to plant 2.87 million acres this...
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture will begin breeding new lines of Provisia rice varieties, which use non-GMO herbicide-resistant traits developed by BASF.
The Division of Agriculture and BASF signed the breeding development agreement earlier this year. Bob...
ice crops can stress under too much water or water at the wrong time. Developing tolerance to these flooding stresses and improving rice cultivars is the life passion for Dr. Endang “Septi” Septiningsih, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist.
Rice...
• By Niranjan Baisakh, Adam Famoso, Jonalyn Yabes, Rodante Tabien and Dustin Harrell •
New varieties are the life blood of the Louisiana rice industry. Rice variety development is primarily focused on the enhancement of yield, grain quality, disease and...
• By Jarrod Hardke •
Soil temperatures remain cool, but it’s time to start putting some rice in the ground if fields are ready. Remember that seed treatments can start to run out of gas while the seed sits in...
Horizon Ag Clearfield rice and Provisia rice varieties – CL163 and PVL01 – ranked among the top three varieties for quality in a recent cooking test that compared samples from a previous shipment of U.S. rice to Brazilian and...
Throughout the Arkansas Delta, growers have eyed the first relatively dry week of weather since last September with cautious optimism.
Stewart Runsick, staff chair for the Clay County Cooperative Extension Service office, says many growers in his area were able...
• By Jarrod Hardke •
There has been a fair amount of discussion about medium-grain selection between Titan and Jupiter this spring. Titan and Jupiter each have their own pros and cons.
Based on head-to-head comparison, the yield potential is virtually...
• By Larry Steckel •
The Environmental Protection Agency will begin requiring anybody who purchases, mixes or applies a paraquat-containing herbicide to take the “How to Safely Use and Handle Paraquat-Containing Products” online training module.
It is expected the training will...
Vermilion Parish and Abbeville, Louisiana, officials recently cut the ribbon on a new Louisiana State University AgCenter parish office, replacing the old one that as damaged by August 2016 flooding.
AgCenter agent Andrew Granger thanked the Vermilion Parish Police Jury...
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