Growers turn to decades-old chemistry to fight ALS-resistant rice flatsedge. By Vicky Boyd Editor Every time Ricky Posey and his stepbrother, Joe Ray Melvin, looked out their shop door near Hunter, Ark., they saw a big patch of ALS-resistant rice flatsedge that...

Think you have some pretty good yields? See how you fare against fellow California producers with the University of California Cooperative Extension's Rice Yield Contest. This season, UCCE expanded it to include the entire Sacramento Valley. Last year, it just held...

Sacramento, Calif.-based Farmers' Rice Cooperative named Rick Rhody as its new CEO. He replaces Kirk Messick, who had been serving as interim CEO since the departure of Frank Bragg III. "“There are many challenges that FRC and the rice industry...

About 100 rice producers attending the Horizon Ag Louisiana field day learned about new Clearfield varieties with improved agronomics that should help reinforce their economic sustainability. “We can produce record amounts of rice every season, but if farmers aren’t profitable...

Texas A&M AgriLife researchers gave rice growers highlights of their new product pipeline during the recent 42nd annual rice field day at the David R. Watermann Rice Research Station in Eagle Lake, Texas. Rice breeder Dr. Rodante Tabien has two...

Under cloudy skies and cool temperatures, attendees of Louisiana State University AgCenter's 107th annual rice field day in Crowley June 29 got a glimpse of several new varieties, hybrids and crop protection materials in the pipeline. Among those were a Clearfield...

For the past two years, breeders with Crop Production Services have quietly been working to develop rice hybrids with improved agronomic traits. By Vicky Boyd Editor The first resulting commercial hybrid, named Express, is set for market introduction in time for...

While some crop protection companies are reducing their presence in the agricultural industry because of cyclic downturns, Valent U.S.A. is investing in its future with expansion and new construction projects. By Vicky Boyd Editor The Walnut Creek, Calif.-based firm is nearing...

Vicky Boyd, editor of Rice Farming and Soybean South and managing editor of Cotton Farming magazines, took top honors in Fresno County (Calif.) Farm Bureau's 22nd Annual Journalism Awards, Farm Trade Print category. Boyd wrote about how California's drought and...

Mississippi State University's Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station recently released a new long-grain conventional variety adapted to the state's soils and climates. Dubbed "Thad," the variety is named after U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. Thad has yields similar to Rex, released...

In the first of a series of field days, Louisiana State University's AgCenter highlighted two varieties it released in 2015 that are receiving good reviews. CL153, a Clearfield-tolerant long-grain, has less chalk and better disease resistance than CL151. The mills...

When it rains, it pours. Rice producers in Texas who have suffered from reduced water deliveries and four years of drought now are experiencing too much rain. As a result, officials with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension predict yields may...

Monheim, Germany-based Bayer AG and Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop applications based on satellite imaging. Bayer plans to purchase the data from aerospace technology provider Planetary Resources to create new agricultural products and...

Construction of the University of Arkansas' Foundation Seed Facility outside of Stuttgart is on schedule with a planned ribbon cutting and opening Aug. 9. The next day, attendee's of the Rice Expo can take tours of the new plant, which...

A group of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husks into the soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield. The team was led...