Horizon Ag provides Clearfield® and Provisia® varieties that combine outstanding yield potential and agronomics. Then we help maximize the performance potential of the seed with insights and best management practices gleaned from working with universities and farmers.
Demand for rice seed was high last winter, and Horizon Ag rose to the challenge, supplying more rice growers with varieties offering excellent yield and milling quality potential.
We look forward to doing it again this year. Because at Horizon Ag, it’s not about selling more seed. It’s about making farmers in Rice Country more successful.
CLL18
CLL18 is redefining yield expectations versus hybrids, cutting better than 200 bushels per acre in many fields throughout the South this past season.
“CLL18 was planted on a lot of acres in 2024 and showed the potential to yield with popular hybrids at a much lower price point for seed,” says Dr. Tim Walker, Horizon Ag CEO. “That’s important in a year when growers are facing financial challenges and lower commodity prices. CLL18 is going to be in big demand next season.”
Prairie County, Arkansas Farmer Darren Walker became a believer in CLL18 when it outyielded all the others on his farm. “It beat the closest variety by 10 bushels per acre,” Walker says. “It is a robust variety with excellent harvestability and performs well across a range of soil types and seeding rates. I recommend it to any farmer looking to grow a Clearfield variety at a lower seed price than hybrids.”
CLL19
CLL19, a high-yielding semi-dwarf, proved to be an outstanding performer for many growers in 2024, after coming out on top in testing over the past several years.
“We’ve been testing (CLL19) since 2017 in a lot of different environments, and every year it’s yielded right at the top,” said Dr. Adam Famoso, LSU AgCenter rice breeder, at the Horizon Ag Louisiana Field Day. “It’s very stable and produces excellent milling yields. Because it is early maturing, it offers solid ratoon crop potential.”
Many growers have found that the early maturity of CLL19 helps them spread out harvesting.
“I like having an early-maturing variety like CLL19 to use in conjunction with mid-maturing and later-maturing varieties,” says Walker. “That way a farmer can start with CLL19, transition to CLL18 and then end with CLL16. It helps you spread out planting and have a straight-through harvest.”
Other Top Horizon Clearfield Varieties For 2025:
• CLL16 – A consistent, high-yielding variety that is a staple on many rice farms. It is broadly adapted for the region, has industry-leading blast resistance with the Pi-ta and Pi-km genes, and performs well in both flooded and row rice systems.
• CLM04 – Competitive with Jupiter from a yield standpoint and has almost the same cereal chemistry. CLM04 provides an improved blast resistance package relative to Jupiter and offers growers the chance to combat red rice and grasses.
• CLM05 – A new, higher-yielding Clearfield® medium grain variety from the University of Arkansas. “This is an opportunity for a significant yield bump on the Clearfield medium grain side,” said Dr. Jarrod Hardke, Arkansas Extension rice agronomist, speaking at the Horizon Ag Arkansas Field Day. “Its yield potential is considerably better than CLM04’s performance has been the past couple of years. We are getting a new, solid player for the Clearfield medium grain market.”
• CLHA03 – The latest high-amylose variety from the LSU AgCenter rice breeding program. Dr. Famoso describes CLHA03 as a “win/win” for U.S. rice, meeting the unique cooking quality desired by Latin American customers while still providing good yield potential for growers.
• CLJ01 – CLJ01 offers the ease and cost-effectiveness of Clearfield technology — along with improved field performance over other Jasmine-type varieties.
Provisia Rice Varieties
Farmers are turning to proven Provisia® Rice System varieties like PVL03 and PVL04 for superior control of weedy rice and resistant red rice, cleaner fields and strong yields.
• PVL03 – For the last two seasons, PVL03 has been the leading variety planted in Louisiana. It has proven a valuable tool where weedy rice and resistant red rice have significantly reduced production potential, providing good yield potential, excellent stalk strength and blast resistance with the Pi-ta and Pi-ks genes.
• PVL04 – PVL04 was new in 2024 and showed improved yields over PVL03 in the Upper Delta. It provides very good straw strength and has the Pi-ta and Pi-ks genes for blast resistance.
“We helped bring Provisia varieties to growers because of their critical need for new weed control technology, and we’ve spent the last several years helping growers best manage them for success,” says Dr. Walker. “We are proud to be the Provisia rice seed leader.”