Louisiana’s crawfish producers generally are harvesting more pounds this season than last, allaying fears about damage from last summer’s flooding. By Vicky Boyd Editor After historic flooding in south Louisiana last summer, many crawfish producers were concerned about how the 2017 season would shape up....

The Cajun French have an expression, “Laissez les bons temps rouler,” which means “let the good times roll.” And nowhere do the good times roll more than during Mardi Gras, regardless of where the parades and parties are held. Historically a Louisiana celebration,...

The rice industry faces challenges ahead, but Ag Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue brings a Southern-oriented Farm Bill background. By Betsy Ward President and CEO USA Rice The Trump candidacy may well have changed campaigning forever. And the Trump Administration is, as promised, turning Washington on its...

With an imbalance between supply and demand, lower production and supplies will be needed in 2017 to strengthen prices. By Kurt Guidry The rice market in Louisiana and much of the Southern rice-growing states continues to be pressured with large supplies and...

Simple, farmer-built gauge helps augment water management. By Vicky Boyd Editor More than 40 years ago, Leroy Isbell, a rice producer near England, Ark., built his first rice water gauge after seeing one in a store in Carlisle, Ark. “It had a block of...

Vicky wanted me to talk a little about early season nutrient management. Since this is not my area of expertise, I turned to Toni Spencer with M&J Fertilizer in Winnie, Texas. Virtually all her rice farmers apply products that contain...

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...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • I have been a weed scientist for a long time and have worked with different cropping systems. The rice cropping system is very interesting to me because of its uniqueness and global impact as one of...

Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain has temporarily lowered the state's rice seed germination standards for 120 days. "While performing routine tests like purity and germination on seed rice, the LDAF Seed Lab discovered the quality was...

A half century of technology and policy changes have helped Arkansas grow to become the nation’s top rice producer. By Mary Hightower In 1967, the world saw the first heart transplant, “The Graduate” was No. 1 at the box office and the...

As I drove home last summer after photographing sweet rice harvest in Northern California, I was itching so badly I could hardly sit still. But my discomfort also brought back a story a Des Arc, Ark., producer told me...

Ag policy, technology and breeding have helped shape the Louisiana rice industry during the past five decades. By Bruce Schultz Growing rice in Louisiana and the LSU Rice Research Station figured prominently in Rice Farming magazine 50 years ago, just as it...

Yields, pest control and cultivation have advanced during the past five decades as Texas growers strive to remain profitable. By L.T. “Ted” Wilson Rice production in Texas has changed greatly over the past 50 years. Table 1 summarizes a few of the major differences...

USA Rice takes a look back at 50 years of ag advocacy in Washington, D.C. As Rice Farming celebrates its golden anniversary, I’d like to offer congratulations and take a brief look at what the agriculture landscape in Washington, D.C.,...

It’s hard to believe Rice Farming magazine will celebrate its Golden Anniversary this year. Many changes and challenges have affected the U.S. rice industry over the past 50 years. Farms are larger, prices are volatile, machinery is highly mechanized and...