When examining the current market situation for rice, there seem to be two different sets of supply and demand fundamentals whether considering shortterm market movement or longer-term, new crop price prospects. In the short term, the supply and demand conditions...

By Carroll Smith Editor You don’t have to strap on your blue suede shoes to travel to Memphis for the 2014 Mid-South Farm and Gin Show, but it might be a good idea to throw some comfortable walking shoes in your...

Costa Rice: A beautiful place to talk about rice. You never hear a bad word about traveling to Costa Rica. Fishing, volcanoes, gorgeous beaches, rain forests, jungle, exotic wildlife, great food and friendly people have been the reason many make...

USA Rice seeks fair and equitable trade for our industry Now that the Farm Bill is behind us, the U.S. rice industry adds renewed focus to a key priority - trade. Producer, miller and export leaders will meet in Washington...

Eric Benzel - Pest Control Adviser, Big Valley Ag Services, Gridley, CA While attending California State University-Chico, I worked for the University of California Cooperative Extension office in Butte County conducting rice research. After graduation, I obtained my license and became a rice...

Joey York - Crop Production Services Inc., Des Arc, AR I have been on and around a farm for most of my life. After graduating from Arkansas State University, I came back to the family farm at Little Dixie for a while,...

Fertilizer -- not too much, not too little DR. M.O. “MO” WAY TEXAS Rice Research Entomologist [email protected] This month’s topic is fertility management. As you know, I’m a bug fella, so I’m no expert on fertility management, although I do know N, P and...

Two New Clearfield Varieties Released LSU AgCenter has announced the release of two new Clearfield rice varieties, an improved Jazzman and a medium grain, according to Steve Linscombe, rice breeder and director of the Rice Research Station. Both will be...

The realization that we were probably going to be in for a cold and crazy winter started for me as Lia Guthrie (our publisher) and I had to “make a run for it” in leaving the USA Rice Outlook...

California brothers represent four generations of rice with the fifth generation not far behind By Carroll Smith Editor Criss Jami, an American poet, essayist and existentialist philosopher quotes, “Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.” And a family legacy in...

My father, Cesar Corrales Ines, founded Arrocera Los Corrales S.A. (ALCSA) in 1972 as a white and parboiled rice milling operation. I’m the second generation in the business and have been involved since 1989. We have been importing rice...

Honorees, industry issues took center stage at St. Louis meeting. Despite inclement weather across the region, attendance at the 2013 USA Rice Outlook Conference in St. Louis was outstanding. More than 600 rice farmers and industry affiliates attended the meeting...

‘So God Made a Rice Farmer’s Daughter’ By Jenna Martin Jenna Martin, 17, of Hickory Ridge, Ark., is the 2013-14 Miss Arkansas Rice. With this title, she will promote rice throughout the state. Jenna ends each of her speaking engagements with...

By Carroll Smith Editor When the song, “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” was written in the mid 1980s, listening audiences picked up on the title and began using it as a positive mantra although the actual lyrics wear...

South Louisiana Rail Facility is encouraging to area rice farmers. By Dwight Roberts President and Chief Executive Officer, USRPA No one said it would be easy. But faced with adversity, rice farmers in southwest Louisiana have been making it happen. Just like the...