DR. JOHN SAICHUK
LOUISIANA
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Several years ago I had a farmer in the rice verification program that was very successful growing upland crops, but felt he wanted to learn more about rice production. A few years later, his brother became a...
Clean Early, Clean Late
DR. JARROD T. HARDKE
ARKANSAS
Rice Extension Agronomist
University of Arkansas,
Cooperative Extension Service
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Good season-long weed control begins with good early season weed control. A good burndown application or tillage practice prior to planting sets the tone for the year....
Fertilizer -- not too much, not too little
DR. M.O. “MO” WAY
TEXAS
Rice Research Entomologist
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This month’s topic is fertility management. As you know, I’m a bug fella, so I’m no expert on fertility management, although I do know N, P and...
DR. M.O. “MO” WAY
TEXAS
Rice Research Entomologist
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I can’t believe we are approaching another field season. I’m still working on reports from 2013 research! Anyway, the topic for this month is varietal selection, and I will try to address some important...
DR. M.O. “MO” WAY
TEXAS
Rice Research Entomologist
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This year about 130,000 acres of rice were planted in Texas – similar to the 2012 planting. For both years, most rice farmers along the Colorado River in Colorado, Wharton and Matagorda Counties were...
DR. JOHN SAICHUK
LOUISIANA
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Fertility research is one of the oldest areas of agricultural research, which might insinuate there is little left to investigate. If that were true, we would not get so many questions from growers each year about rice...
DR. JOHN SAICHUK
LOUISIANA
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Last year, when I was writing about disease management for the 2012 rice-growing season, I concentrated on what I thought was going to be the major issue of the year – resistant sheath blight. At the time,...
DR. JARROD T. HARDKE
ARKANSAS
Rice Extension Agronomist
University of Arkansas,
Division of Agriculture
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“Do I have an adequate water supply to irrigate the rice acreage I intend to grow?” This should be one of the first questions a rice grower asks before the...
DR. M.O. “MO” WAY
TEXAS
Rice Research Entomologist
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In rice fields, many insects are aquatic and obtain oxygen by absorbing this dissolved gas directly from the water through their integument, by surfacing and taking a bubble of air with them underwater or...
DR. JOHN SAICHUK
LOUISIANA
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One of the most frequently asked questions this fall has been, “What are we going to plant next year?” It is also one of the most uncommon questions I have been asked over the years in this...
SAM ATWELL
MISSOURI
Agronomy Specialist
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At our annual Missouri Rice Producers Conference in February, we had topics on resistant weeds, rice weed control recommendations for flood, furrow and pivot rice. Fertilizer recommendations, soil testing and the economic application of nitrogen and other...
DR. M.O. “MO” WAY
TEXAS
Rice Research Entomologist
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Remember the “disease triangle” when thinking about rice disease management. The three points of the triangle are the disease-causing pathogen, the host and the environment. All three interact to determine the incidence and severity...
Dr. John Saichuk
Louisiana
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Last year I wrote an article on water management on March 29. Following is most of the first paragraph of that article. I had no idea at the time of how much of it would be accurate...
Multiple strategies for weed control
Dr. John Saichuk
Louisiana
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Most of the time when the subject of weed control in rice – or any crop for that matter – comes up, the first thoughts are of herbicides; what to use, rate, how...
Make wise variety decisions
DR. NATHAN BUEHRING
MISSISSIPPI
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With continued rising production costs and market volatility at an alltime high, rice producers have to be as productive as possible, and there is no room to come up short in terms of production....
