If you know a grower or entity that has embraced sustainability through innovative practices and leadership, they might be a perfect candidate for the second annual USA Rice Sustainability Award.
Now in its second year, the award is designed to...
The entire fight over what can and can't be called rice has spilled over into a food that many in South Louisiana consider sacred — boudin.
For those not familiar with boudin, it is a sausage made of meat, whether...
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Whitney Brim-Deforest has been to several farm calls in the past few weeks about an unknown grass weed.
Between last season and this, she has seen seven fields that appear to have bad...
Billbugs, once an occasional pest of rice that cannot survive in standing water, are increasing pressure as row-rice acreage grows.
Billbugs are weevils whose larvae bore into the side of rice tillers, or stems, and deprive developing grain heads of...
Rice is beginning to head in the California rice-production area. As you scout your fields, keep weedy rice in mind.
In the past few weeks, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisers have received 10 suspect samples. Of these, two...
Representatives of the Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council and Southeast Missouri State University recently traveled to Egypt to discuss the potential for shipping Missouri paddy rice to Egypt and collaborating on rice breeding and agronomic rice research with...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Many growers for the first time got to see the FullPage herbicide-tolerant rice system growing in the field during RiceTec's recent field day near Harrisburg, Arkansas.
For the 2019 growing season, Alvin, Texas-based RiceTec plans a...
If you are high school seniors bound for college or know of one, the National Rice Month Scholarship contest may be for him or her.
The program, which involves creating a video, is open to graduating students from Arkansas, California, Louisiana,...
Arkansas producers have only to look to California to see what can happen if they don't follow a voluntary smoke management program and get their open-field burning under control.
"If we don't make an active attempt to manage this issue,...
A research greenhouse formally opened Aug. 2 further aids University of Arkansas efforts to stem yield loss after milling due to high nighttime temperatures.
Jay Coker, chairman of the Rice Research and Promotion Board, says the need for an advanced...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
More than 250 rice producers, consultants and allied ag industry representatives packed tour trailers during the University of Arkansas' recent rice field day at the Rice Research and Extension Center near Stuttgart.
Departing from the Rice...
The University California Cooperative Extension is launching its yield contest once again for 2018 with a few changes.
New this year is the grand prize of a John Deere side-by-side (XUV 560E) for the overall winner. The name of each...
Wilmington, Delaware-based Belchim Crop Protection USA will distribute Tenchu 20SG insecticide to control rice stink bugs.
The product — registered by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2013 — contains the active ingredient dinotefuran, a neonicotinoid.
With more emphasis on quality, many...
The heat of the day is tough on crops, but it’s the heat of the night that keeps Arkansas rice growers worried.
Arkansas has experienced several weeks of hot, dry weather and that’s growing concern among rice producers, says Jarrod...
USDA-ERS agricultural economist Nathan Childs recently provided a glimpse into how the 2018-19 rice marketing year is expected to shape up.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The 2017-18 rice marketing year is just a few days shy of ending, but...
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