Rice Advice

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Wendell Minson Bootheel Crop Consultants Dexter, Missouri I received a B.S. degree in agricultural education from the University of Missouri. After obtaining a teaching certificate, I taught vocational agriculture for four years in Dexter, Missouri, before going to work...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Pat Roberts AGvice Crop Consulting McGehee, Arkansas I got involved with agriculture in high school working in the summers for a local farmer. After that, I wanted to be a farmer myself and was always on the lookout for...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Ross Wood, C.C.A. Stratton Seed Co. Stuttgart, Arkansas I grew up in Waldenburg, Arkansas, where my grandfather farmed rice, soybeans and wheat, and my parents owned and operated an agricultural flying service. Aviation was my passion with the goal...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Blain Pearce Pearce Consulting LLC McGehee, Arkansas Growing up, I always wanted to work for a man named Steven Walls who scouted cotton and soybeans. When I was 12 years old, he picked me up at 5:30 one morning...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Amy Beth Dowdy ABD Crop Consulting LLC Dexter, Missouri When I was born, I was the only girl in a nursery full of boys. It’s been that way my entire life, but I am comfortable in that environment and...

I grew up in a farming community, worked in ag all through high school and got into the Pest Control Adviser program during college. Today, I am a crop adviser for the Butte County Rice Growers Association. Our rice crop...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Growing up, I was surrounded by agriculture. My grandparents had a small rice farm near Willows, California, and my dad, Wally Cramer, was a pest control adviser (PCA) for more than 40 years. I became interested...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • I began working in rice at Rice Researchers — a private rice breeding facility — while attending California State University, Chico. Today, I am the technical marketing and research and development manager for Helena’s Western...

As soon as I could legally drive a truck, Arkansas crop consultant Danny Moore hired me to work for him, which I did for 10 years. We checked a lot of rice during that time. In 2008, I joined...

Growing up, I learned a lot from my father who was a crop consultant and a professor at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. He taught me about damaging weed and insect pests and which products to use to...

I grew up on a small farm in Lynn, Ark., where my dad, Howard Brannon, grew rice, soybeans and grain sorghum. While we spent time together, he taught me about agriculture, especially how to fix equipment. After observing one...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • My grandparents started Jones Flying Service in 1963, and I started flying for the business in 1997 as a third-generation ag pilot. In 2007, I also began farming rice and custom harvesting. And in 2016, I...

Amy Beth Dowdy ABD Crop Consultants, LLC Dexter, Mo. B.S., Agronomy, Mississippi State University Consults only on rice in the Missouri Bootheel Member of the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants Executive Board 2011-15 2010 NAICC Consultant of the Year Member of the Stoddard County Fair...