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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates California's Central Valley Project, updated water allocations originally made Feb. 20. Agricultural water service contractors north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will now receive an allocation of 20 percent, according to a...

.danger {background-color: #E5E4E2; border-left: 6px solid #006600; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px;} The Louisiana State University AgCenter has released a new hybrid rice with high quality and competitive yield potential. The long-grain hybrid, LAH169, was developed at the H. Rouse...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison has signed a joint resolution from the state House and Senate supporting a standard of identity be developed for rice and its wild rice relatives. Specifically, the resolution says that rice should be defined as whole...

SPONSORED CONTENT Despite an unusually wet spring in 2017, most Northern California rice producers were still able to get their fields planted on time, thanks to larger equipment that can cover more acres than decades ago. That doesn’t mean that...

SPONSORED CONTENT After hearing good things about Loyant herbicide, Hunter Carter — who farms with his brother, Drew — was able to see firsthand how it performed on their own operation last season. The Carters were part of a handful...

It’s time to finalize early season weed control decisions in Missouri rice. These decisions depend on already selected choices of several systems, such as furrow-irrigated, paddy-flooded, water-seeded, Clearfield, Provisia, hybrids or conventional rice. Then there’s weed history, soil types, soil...

While front-loading expenses at the beginning of the season can be difficult to deal with, it’s a wise investment to protect your overall bottom line. Beyond seed selection, the use of seed treatments and residual herbicides are our best...

We know some of you do a lot of fall/winter tillage to control weeds. However, a spring burndown herbicide application or tillage just prior to seeding can help achieve a clean seedbed. Practicing a stale seedbed can also help...

Early season rice injury due to off-target preemergence soybean herbicides has been a continual issue in the Mississippi Delta over the past several years. In the past, most of the early season issues centered on glyphosate drift, but with...

Weed control in California rice has become more complicated over the past few years, both due to increasing number of herbicide-resistant weeds as well as new weeds, including weedy rice and for some, winged-primrose willow. Just as we were...

Giant invasive snail threatens the rice-crawfish rotation in southwest Louisiana. By Dustin Harrell The channeled apple snail, a native of South America, is an invasive pest believed to have been introduced into the United States via the aquarium trade. It has...

Weed scientist Bob Scott, who most recently was director of the University of Arkansas' Newport Extension Center, was appointed director of the university's Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, Arkansas. He replaces Nathan McKinney, who had served as...

I’m not going to lie to you — things in Washington, D.C., are a little strange. Important positions in some federal agencies are going unfilled, at times the administration appears to be at war with itself and Congress is...

The Top 10 food trends for a given year are always amusing to read. What’s going to be hot and what’s going to be “not”? Even more interesting is going back to a previous year’s forecasts to see what, if...

California rice industry prepares for what may become annual armyworm infestations. By Vicky Boyd Editor When Luis Espino, a University of California Cooperative Extension farm adviser, started seeing significant true armyworm populations in numerous rice fields in 2015, he thought it...