• By Vernon Miller • Calling them the densest he’s ever seen, Louisiana State University AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson was startled to find invasive apple snail egg masses in St. James Parish. But he said preventative measures, and a little...

Frank Carey and Jeff Rutledge have been named 2021 outstanding alumni by the University of Arkansas' Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. Carey is the Outstanding Ph.D. Alumnus...

• By Jeff Gore, Don Cook, Whitney Crow and Angus Catchot • A lot of rice has been planted in the state over the last couple of weeks, and most of it had an insecticide seed treatment as we recommend....

• By Bruce Schultz • Cool weather is taking its toll on young rice plants in south Louisiana while north Louisiana farmers are still waiting for fields to be dry enough for planting. Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter agronomist, said rice plant...

The Arkansas Waterfowl Rice Incentive Conservation Enhancement program was developed by Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists to help keep waste rice available for ducks, geese and other migrating birds when they pass through each winter. It has recently been...

• By Peter Bachmann • Rice shipments, like many other food exports, are becoming increasingly subject to inappropriately low, precautionary maximum residue limits (MRLs) set by overseas markets. Among the shipments most affected are those bound for the European Union,...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Corn and rice growers were off to a strong start, planting 24% and 13% of total planned acreage, respectively. While the numbers were still well behind the five-year average for those crops at this point...

The new Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center in Poinsett County, Arkansas, received a $2 million boost from Greenway Equipment. Greenway executives John Conner Jr., chairman; Marshall Stewart, CEO; Steve Smith, chief financial officer; and Bill Midkiff, president, announced the...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Rick Deviney Deviney Ag Service DeWitt, Arkansas While in college, I scouted cotton and worked for a flying service. After graduating, I was a crop duster until 2010 when my friend who had a crop consulting business hired...

• By Whitney Brim-DeForest and Tim Johnson • The absence of a registered herbicide to control weedy rice in California leaves growers with fewer options to control this important pest. Planting clean seed, as required by the Certification Act, is...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Barry Morrell Colusa County Farm Supply Williams, California I was born and raised in Kelseyville in Lake County, California, where my parents were farmers and ranchers. After graduating from Chico State, I worked as a seed salesman for...

• By Bruce Schultz • Rice planting is wrapping up in south Louisiana, but wet weather has kept farmers out of the fields in the north. “It’s moving along pretty fast,” said Todd Fontenot, Louisiana State University AgCenter agent in Evangeline...

Texas rice grower Jacko Garrett continues to ‘share the harvest’ through his charitable efforts. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • For more than three decades, Danbury, Texas, rice producer Jacko Garrett has been growing rice specifically to donate to the Houston Food...

Take an integrated approach to disease management and consider several factors before making an application. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • No two farming seasons are alike, and that also goes for variations in plant disease severity from year to year. Nevertheless, plant...

Work moves forward on herbicide-tolerant California medium-grain production system. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • The California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, in conjunction with Albaugh LLC, continues work to bring the herbicide-tolerant ROXY Rice Production System to market. Researchers at the grower-owned Rice...