Friday, July 17, 2026

UC creates $1 million Cooperative Extension endowed rice research chair

The University of California's Agriculture and Natural Resources has established a $1 million endowed chair for California grown rice. The position, one of 100 created by UC President Janet Napolitano's matching-fund program in 2014, will provide a UC Cooperative Extension scientist...

California rice growers receive good news, bad news about weed management

California rice producers attending the recent annual Rice Field Day at Biggs received some good news and some bad news when it comes to weed control. As soon as the 2017 use season, they could have a new herbicide—Butte, a...

Louisiana rice, soybean growers reel from flooding

Many Louisiana rice and soybean producers were looking at decent crops before torrential rains in August flooded many fields and created mud bogs in others. Kurt Guidry, an agricultural economist with Louisiana State University's AgCenter, puts initial flood losses to...

Homer Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms recognized for service to industry

Homer Lundberg, who with his three older brothers founded Lundberg Family Farms in Richvale, Calif., was honored at the recent California Rice Field Day for his decades of service to the rice industry and his community. In presenting the 55th...

It’s wait and see on the 2017 Louisiana crawfish season

Crawfish may spend a good part of their life in water, but flooding at the wrong time could affect reproduction and survival. One of the keys to the 2017 season will be how fast producers are able to pump...

University of Arkansas dedicates new foundation seed plant

Flanked by members of Arkansas'  rice, soybean and wheat promotion boards, officials with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture dedicated a new foundation seed processing plant, Aug. 9, outside of Stuttgart. The state-of-the-art facility, which was built on university...

Horizon Ag’s 3 new Clearfield varieties boast improved grain quality, agronomics

Horizon Ag continues its quest to provide the industry improved grain quality and better agronomics with the introduction of two long-grain and one medium-grain Clearfield variety for the 2017 season. The releases, which are naturally tolerant to the imazethapyr herbicide, are...

RiceTec pushes yield boundaries with new hybrid introduction

RiceTec continues to push the yield limits of commercial rice with the introduction of the new Clearfield hybrid, RT7311 CL, for the 2017 season. At the same time, the Houston, Texas-based firm is working to improve grain quality, a...

Back to the future

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...

UCCE challenges state’s rice producers with yield contest

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...

Farmers’ Rice Co-op names new CEO

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...

Horizon Ag’s Louisiana field day highlights economic sustainability

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 highlight work at Eagle Lake rice field day

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...

LSU AgCenter offers glimpse of research at annual Crowley rice field day

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...

CPS’s Express hybrid rice generates buzz among growers and mills

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...

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