⋅ BY CALEB HAMPTON ⋅ California Farm Bureau New technologies have transformed the world during the past half-century. Agriculture has been no exception, with the emergence of aerial drones, autonomous tractors, and other equipment changing the way crops are planted, cared...

Manipulating Post-Harvest Rice Fields for Maximizing Season-Long Food Supply for Pond-Raised Red Swamp Crawfish in Louisiana  BY MAHALA "HALEY" GAMBILL & MARK SHIRLEY ⋅ LSU AgCenter Crawfish aquaculture is the most profitable aquaculture endeavor in Louisiana, representing roughly 69% of the total gross farm value...

Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumna Confirmed ⋅ BY KATHERINE HANCOCK ⋅ Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences former student Brooke Rollins ’94 has been confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. She is the first Texan...

⋅ BY MICHAEL KLEIN ⋅ USA Rice More than 300 rice researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans recently for the 40th biennial Rice Technical Working Group meeting to discuss everything from agronomy, breeding, and cytogenics to utilization, weed...

⋅ 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...