MARY HIGHTOWER
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
Global rice production is projected to continue growing through 2035, with demand exceeding production and African consumption rising, according to the International Rice Outlook: International Rice Baseline Projections 2025–2035.
The outlook, written by Alvaro Durand-Morat, associate professor, and Willy...
RICHARD E. HICKS
OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI
I jokingly describe the struggle between the dominant players in the world rice trade. While I do not truly believe it is a concerted effort or an obvious battle, but it is significant, as the...
KAT KERLIN
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
Almost exactly 15 years ago, researchers at UC Davis, California Trout and other partners started testing a wacky idea: Let's plant salmon in rice fields to see how they grow. Could these winter-flooded fields serve as “nurseries”...
JOHN LOVETT
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently.
Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants kill early-stage fall armyworm larvae by trapping them in a...
Research suggests commingling certain cultivars is a source of decreased head rice yield
JOHN LOVETT
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
Research by the Arkansas Rice Processing Program is showing valuable insights for rice farmers that affect their take-home pay and the quality of rice for...
MARY HIGHTOWER
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
Rice growers unable to finish their initial planting are weighing whether to try again, plant soybeans, or take a prevented planting payment, extension specialists said.
The Risk Management Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture offers prevented...
RYAN MCGEENEY
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
Rice planting in Arkansas, which provides about half of the country’s total crop, is always a weather-dependent process. Whether the preceding winter is harsh or mild, the spring wet or dry, every turn of the calendar...
BONNIE COBLENTZ
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI
When a system works, there is little reason to change and many reasons to stick with success; any change in that system is often small things to improve efficiency.
Mississippi’s rice industry is not following that pattern.
Rice has...
RYAN MCGEENEY
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
Rice billbug has been a pest in U.S. rice production for as long as farmers have been growing it. But in 2026, it’s almost certainly going to be the No. 1 pest Arkansas rice farmers will...
MICHAEL KLEIN
USA RICE FEDERATION
The rice industry has spent years fighting imports “the right way” – working through proper legislative and regulatory channels, asking for fair policy, playing the long game. What we've gotten in return are half-measures, delayed action,...
MARY HIGHTOWER
JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
May’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, or WASDE, report is shining a biofueled ray of light as it forecasts higher average prices for soybeans and corn.
Each month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Outlook Board issues...
BRUCE A. LINQUIST
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA
This post is somewhat a repeat of last year’s. However, while last year the rice price was low, this year we have both low rice prices and high fertilizer costs. Therefore, there is even more reason...
FLAVIA FURLAN
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
Field yield is only one part of the profitability equation for rice producers. Even when a crop yields well, losses during milling can significantly reduce its value. A major contributor to those losses is grain fissuring,...
Prepare To Defend
JARROD T. HARDKE
ARKANSAS
We grow rice in water with plenty of heat and humidity. Essentially, it’s a potential disease paradise. Fortunately, breeding and cultivar selection, along with improving agronomics, have taken us a long way in the fight...
Disease Management In Texas Rice
SAM RUSTOM
EAGLE LAKE, TEXAS
Disease management in Texas rice is shaped by our warm, humid Gulf Coast climate, ratoon cropping, and evolving pest pressures. According to the Texas Plant Disease Handbook, “sheath blight, caused by the...
