By Luis A Espino
I found blast in two fields last week; one is near Willows and the other is near Maxwell. The infections seem to be starting; there were only a few leaf lesions. In these fields, and in a...
By Taiyu Guan
The annual Rice Field Day will be Wednesday, August 26th, 2026, at the Rice Experiment Station (RES), Biggs, California. We cordially invite you and your associates to join us for this event. The purpose of the Rice Field...
John Lovett
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Fast Facts
New herbicide technology could expand barnyardgrass control in rice
Soybean program advances drought tolerance, nematode resistance, yield stability
NERREC Director Tim Burcham shares career insights ahead of upcoming retirement
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Texas Crop and Weather Report
by Blair Fannin
Texas rice crop harvest continues with steady yields and relatively mild insect pressure, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
Going into the crop season, challenges such as insect pressure and market prices were concerns,...
Richard E. Hicks
Hello and welcome back our Far East tour of the world’s top five rice producers. Today we will take a bird’s eye view of Indonesia. Indonesia as a producer was recently dropped to fourth place as last...
By Kurt D. LaRose / Rice Farming
At the University of Arkansas Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Harrisburg, Arkansas, Horizon Ag welcomed growers, researchers, and industry partners to its annual field day — an event that has...
Dwight Roberts / Former President and CEO US Rice Producers
Rice farmers must speak for themselves. If they do not, others will speak for them—and those voices may not fully reflect farmers’ interests. We have seen that reality firsthand since...
FELIPE DALLA LANA
RAYNE, LOUISIANA
The first crop of the 2026 rice season is moving quickly toward harvest, with a few fields already harvested in Southwest Louisiana and many more expected to be cut in the coming weeks. Although we still...
KARAH JANEVICIUS
USA Rice
Italy’s Agriculture Minister, Francesco Lollobrigida, went viral recently for a video in which he said imported rice was hurting the country’s farmers and urging Italian consumers to “check the labels and choose Italian.” An agriculture minister promoting...
Sam Rustom, Ph.D. // Lina Bernaola, Ph.D.
Rain, Rain Go Away
Surprise, surprise – it’s raining again. We have received roughly five inches of rain this week (July 13) at the Wintermann Station. Although a few farmers got started with harvest...
BONNIE COBLENTZ
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
Rice production requires a significant amount of water, and while Mississippi still has plentiful supplies of this resource, careful managers are finding ways to cut use of this diminishing resource.
One method that shows tremendous promise is recirculating...
MANOCH KONGCHUM
RAYNE, LOUISIANA
Timely harvest is one of the most critical factors affecting rice grain quality and profitability. In Louisiana, rice producers frequently encounter weather-related challenges during the harvest season, including rainfall, high humidity, and delayed field access, which can...
Lauren Kirschman
UW News
Climate projections estimate that, by the end of this century, the land area exceeding rice’s temperature limits could expand by 10 to 30 times in Asia’s major rice-producing nations. Photo: Pixabay
Arguably the most important crop on Earth, rice...
Sarah Marsh Janish
According to the June 2026 NASS Acreage Report, U.S. rice planted area fell sharply to 2.017 million acres, a 28% drop from the previous season and the lowest number of rice acres since the 1970s. The steep decline is...
Vidalina Abadam, coordinator Jennifer Bond, Andrew Sowell, Seth Wechsler, and Ethan Sabala, contributors
U.S. All Rice Supplies Lowered for 2026/27
There are several revisions this month on both the supply and use side of the U.S. 2026/27 rice balance sheet....
