⋅ BY DEBORAH WILLENBORG ⋅ It was a packed house at the Bolivar County Extension Auditorium for the Mississippi Rice Council Annual meeting recently. President Kirk Satterfield welcomed and thanked attendees and provided both his President’s report and the Mississippi Rice...

⋅ BY BRAD WATKINS ⋅ High input prices in recent years have significantly reduced profit margins for rice producers in the Mid-South. The negative impact of tightening profit margins is felt most acutely by rice producers renting cropland. A significant...

When you think about the saying, “chaos is a ladder,” trade may not come to mind for most, but it does for me. Amidst all the Washington chaos about the short- and long-term impacts of import tariffs and retaliatory tariffs...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ As a longtime Horizon Ag customer and seed producer, Prairie County, Arkansas Farm Manager Darren Walker has seen a lot of good-yielding pure-line varieties introduced, only to be replaced by a better-yielding variety every few years. The...

Gary Dodd didn’t have any agricultural roots to speak of. He was a single child of a father and mother, who both served in the United States Marine Corps, (his father a career Marine). Therefore, they moved around a...

I just finished the third of nine sessions of the Governor Dolph Briscoe, Jr. Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership program, known more commonly as “TALL.” This two-year program is administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and has been...

Growing up across three east Arkansas counties, St. Francis, Monroe, and Arkansas, significantly shaped who I am. As a little girl, I watched my father have a deep appreciation of the outdoors, and anything that involved rice farming. Our...

Don’t Run on Empty The saying goes, “a ¼ tank is better than an empty tank.” That’s going to be very appropriate for the 2025 growing season. In a year where nothing really pencils out, it’s going to be tempting...

Texas Rice Industry Strategizes Over Research, Politics, and Water Recently, El Campo, Texas, was the place to be for the Western Rice Belt Production Conference, inside the warm and dry El Campo Civic Center. Rainy weather didn’t hinder growers and sponsors...

Breeding Rice to Withstand High Nighttime Stress ⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station Rice plants can deal with the heat during the day, but when the sun goes down, they need to chill...

Specialists Give New Strength to Missouri Crops and Center ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ EDITOR Down in Portageville, Missouri, the Fisher Delta Research, Extension and Education Center (FDREEC) sits perched on Upper Delta soils in the “bootheel” region of the southeastern part...

⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅ The start of another year has brought with it new laws and regulations that affect agricultural production in California. As of Jan. 1, new policies related to water, air quality, endangered species, and other issues...

The passage of the American Relief Act of 2025, signed by President Joe Biden in December, is a hard-won victory for us. This measure will provide much needed economic assistance and disaster relief to rice farmers to alleviate the...

Mahindra Launches 11th Annual Military Salute Giveaway to Thank Our Military Mahindra Ag North America (MAgNA) announced the return of an exciting tradition: the annual Mahindra Military Salute Giveaway. This year’s giveaway features a Mahindra 1120 tractor with a loader and...

⋅ BY REBEKAH HALL ⋅ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture LeadAR, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s leadership program, is accepting applications for its next class of leaders. The in-depth learning experience covers economic and social issues...