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Nitrogen is one of the largest expenses in a rice production budget. Efficient use of fertilizer N not only helps maximize grain yield, but it also helps lower fertilization rates, lower fertilizer expenses and minimize negative effects on the...

Due to a long dry fall, Missouri growers have leveled and prepared their fields and are ready to plant. Recent rains have saturated our soils, so early seeding has been delayed, which is OK because we still have time...

I want to assure you that even though this column is going on hiatus for the summer, our work continues unabated. We will spend the summer as we do every season — finding and opening new markets, expanding opportunities...

In the past few years, the number of calls I have received about disease management has increased considerably. Most of them were about stem rot, a disease that seems prevalent in many areas of the Sacramento Valley. Stem rot is...

Using rice as a beer ingredient is nothing new. Brewers before Prohibition used the grain because it imparted a light, crisp taste and effervescence, and Anheuser Busch has been doing so for decades. But they all used rice as an...

Toward the end of May and really into June, most of the rice crop will be ready to start flooding, depending on conditions. This is the time when we will begin to set our first yield component — number...

Although it’s still too early to tell, delayed planting could shore up at least short-term prices. By Kurt Guidry — Information coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the past several weeks has been mixed in terms of providing...

Faced with what they call potentially devastating cuts to research and educational programs, Louisiana State University AgCenter leaders have called on constituents to contact their local lawmakers and educate them on the importance of these programs. In a call-to-action letter...

.danger {background-color: #E5E4E2; border-left: 6px solid #006600; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 15px;} The rice pretender war is heating up this spring as USA Rice is registering formal complaints and offering recommended fixes to purveyors of what the trade group terms...

Davis, California-based Arcadia Biosciences has found significant yield increases with three of its proprietary input traits stacked together, according to research results from the past two seasons. In the trials at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia, multiple...

The LSU AgCenter will hold a series of field days to help rice farmers learn about the latest practices to improve crop production. Experts will make presentations on variety development, fertility, diseases, insects and weeds. “These field days give us the...

By Susan M. Collins-Smith — Spring’s cool temperatures have rice producers playing the waiting game in Mississippi. The crop is 60 percent planted, but very little of it has emerged, says Bobby Golden, a rice and soil fertility agronomist with...

By Luis Espino — Tadpole shrimp (TPS) are starting to pop up in rice fields. A grower asked me when is the period when rice is “safe” from TPS. He is seeing very small shrimp, and seedlings are already past...

By Karl Wiggers — With Easter in the rearview mirror, the huge demand for crawfish has begun to decline. But that doesn’t mean crawfish farmer Allen McLain of Vermilion Parish has drained his ponds yet. He has more than 700...

Rutgers-led genome research finds fungal pathogen that causes rice disease became harmful 21 million years ago. About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating rice disease first became harmful to the food that nourishes roughly half the...