• By Ryan McGeeney •
Firefighters, grain bin operators and farm workers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi are invited to attend an upcoming grain bin safety course on Monday, July 19 at the McGehee Men’s Club in McGehee, Arkansas.
The class...
When a hurricane threatens to make landfall, forecasters offer a barrage of informational tools to communicate the risk of it coming through coastal and inland communities, so residents can prepare for its impact. Chief among these tools is the...
• By Mary Hightower •
After COVID forced a virtual version last year, the in-person Arkansas Rice Field Day will be back Aug. 6 at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart.
“We’re glad to be back to a face-to-face...
• By Scott Stiles •
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports will be released Monday, July 12, at 11 a.m. central time.
As we discussed last week, the results of the June acreage...
• By Yeshi Wamishe and Jarrod Hardke •
In flooded or furrow-irrigated rice, most cultivars including hybrids are susceptible or moderately susceptible to kernel or false smut or both. Under favorable weather conditions, kernel and false smut are generally severe...
The University of California Cooperative Extension will once again be holding its UCCE Rice
Yield Contest this season.
Information will soon be on the UCCE rice website (https://rice.ucanr.edu/), but the rules are similar to previous years.
You must preregister online or in...
• By Mary Hightower •
The Aug. 12 Rice College will offer an intensive full-day look at the challenges facing Arkansas rice producers with a slate of researchers from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
Registration deadline for Rice...
Delta rice farmers will have two opportunities to see the latest Clearfield and Provisia varieties from Horizon Ag at separate field days in Arkansas in August.
The first will be held on Aug. 4 at the University of Arkansas Rice...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For the first time in its history, RiceTec plans to launch a variety — RTv7231 MA — for the 2022 season. It will likely be joined by the hybrid, RT7331 MA, both of which belong...
University of California Cooperative Extension will hold a weedy rice workshop from 9-11:30 a.m., Aug. 3, at its Sutter-Yuba Office, 142A Garden Highway, Yuba City, California. The meeting is free, but preregistration is required.
This project is sponsored with funding...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
At a recent field tour near Kaplan, Louisiana, Horizon Ag gave growers a preview of the newest Provisia rice variety, PVL03, which it plans to launch commercially for the 2022 season.
Tested for the past four...
The Louisiana Rice Research Board honored three individuals at the June 30 LSU AgCenter Rice Field Day for their years of service to the industry.
• Dr. Don Groth, who retired earlier this year as Extension plant pathologist and resident...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas ranked No. 1 in the nation in rice exports, according to the State Agricultural Trade database released this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
The $722 million contribution by rice was part of the state’s...
• By Scott Stiles •
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its much-anticipated June Acreage report this week. The most surprising aspect of the report was the lack of change from the March intentions.
Likely the report left traders with more...
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