Mississippi Rice Council Annual Meeting Recounts a Year of Rice-Centric Activities Mississippi Rice Council President Kirk Satterfield welcomed about 75 producers to the annual meeting recently to learn about promotion, research, agronomy, politics, and more. Promotions were first up with a...

⋅ BY IAN GRETTENBERGER, KEVIN GODING, SOPHIE ALLEN (UC DAVIS), and LUIS ESPINO (UCCE) ⋅ Rice seed midge damage was first officially recorded in California rice production in 1953, and this pest is actually a number of different species that...

With an increased interest in conservation and land preservation, the use of legal tools like land trusts and conservation easements have grown in popularity. Specifically, nonprofit land trusts which typically act as a 501(c)(3) organization for the purpose of...

How Water will Determine the Rice Industry ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ Editor On a Century Farm about 30 miles outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, Dow Brantley is running the farm business his grandfather started years ago. His dad is still...

Experts addressed the theme ‘Provisia — save the technology’ during a recent conservation forum. ⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅ Author’s note: At the end of January, Horizon Ag hosted a Provisia Rice Panel during the National Conservation Systems meeting in Jonesboro,...

⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅ The return of fully planted rice crops to the Sacramento Valley following years of drought has restored another essential feature of the region. After harvest, reservoirs replenished by last year’s historic storms enabled farmers to...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Trent Roberts and Caio Vieira, faculty members with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, were recognized for their conservation work in rice and soybeans at the National Conservation...

Over the past three years, USA Rice has collaborated with The Hartman Group to delve into the trends and demographics surrounding rice consumption, offering valuable insights into the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of rice eaters. I have...

⋅ BY OLIVIA McCLURE ⋅ The LSU AgCenter has named Adam Famoso resident director and research coordinator of its H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station near Crowley. Famoso, a rice breeder who has been central to the station’s variety development efforts, assumed the...

Mizzou’s new Digital Agriculture Research and Extension Center will enhance research, education and outreach in emerging digital technologies for farming. Nearly one-third of Missouri's economy is tied to agriculture. That’s why the state’s flagship land-grant institution, the University of Missouri,...

As planting time nears, rice farmers are making seed decisions based on factors like yield potential, consistency, milling quality, disease resistance, maturity, weed control and stewardship. With a strong variety lineup, plus services designed to help rice farmers be...

Louisiana rice consultant, Rusty Elston, said his father, Willard Elston, made sure his children knew how to work beginning at an early age. “This is where the training for my career actually began,” Rusty said. “My father set the...

Thoughts on Managing Nitrogen Fertilizer For the past three years, we have been doing research at the Rice Experiment Station on how to manage N fertilizer in a rice field when the previous year, the rice was in fallow. Here...

As an interest in land conservation has grown among both the public and private sectors in the past decade, land trusts have become an increasingly popular avenue for encouraging and enforcing conservation practices. While there are various types of land...

USA Rice Welcomes New International Trade Policy Director Karah Fissel has joined USA Rice as the new director for international trade policy. Karah will manage the International Trade Policy Committee and its subcommittees, and her first week will be spent traveling...