If you are planning on planting rice for crawfish forage, the best time to plant is in late July or the first week of August, says Mark Shirley, Louisiana State University AgCenter crawfish aquaculture and coastal resources specialist.
Last summer,...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Normally in mid-July, Steve Linscombe would be mailing out brochures that promote the upcoming Rice Leadership Development Program and that seek rice industry applicants.
But like so many events and programs this year, the leadership program...
The University of California Cooperative Extension Rice Team has developed a series of fact sheets to simplify and convey information about important topics that they frequently discuss with growers and pest control advisers. Each fact sheet is two pages...
Due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the region and out of an abundance of caution for farmer customers and retailers, Horizon Ag is canceling its 2020 Louisiana Field Day that had been scheduled for Wednesday, July...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Since acquiring Bayer’s rice breeding program in 2015, Nutrien Ag Solutions has mostly flown under the radar developing new rice cultivars for the U.S. market.
That will change in 2021 with the launch of DGL-263X, a...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Scientists at the Louisiana State University AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station detailed their work in an online field day presentation July 1.
Mike Salassi, LSU AgCenter vice president for plant and animal science, said...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter showed off a number of promising varieties that potentially could be released in coming years during its recent first-ever virtual rice field day.
The annual event, held at the university's H....
A global health crisis and its attendant economic impacts, unusually wet weather and an ongoing trade dispute with China had a discouraging effect on Arkansas growers’ acreage decisions for some key crops in 2020, even as farmers went all...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has released its 2020 acreage report shows U.S. rice growers planted slightly more than 2.9 million acres this season.
That compares to about 2.5 million acres in 2019. This figures are...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
This is a reminder for you to take samples of rice roots from your fields to gauge how much the wet conditions this year followed by the normal permanent flood have affected your rice.
This note...
A paper written by a doctoral student and faculty of the department of food science in the University of Arkansas has been named an “editor's pick” by the Cereals & Grains Association.
The paper, “Physicochemical and Functional Properties of Medium-Sized...
Jim Harper, a rice, crawfish, sugarcane and soybean farmer in Rapides Parish, has been elected as the 12th president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau.
Harper now leads the state’s largest general farm organization at a pivotal moment where farmers face...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Adama has rolled out two off-patent herbicides for rice this season and has two more planned for introduction next year, providing they receive registration.
This season, the company introduced Vopak 3ME, a micro-encapsulated formulation of clomazone,...
Friends and employees of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture honored outgoing Cooperative Extension Service director Rick Cartwright June 26 with a $40,000 scholarship endowment created and named in honor of him and his wife, Lynette.
The Rick...
Composite binders are important materials used in furniture, flooring and other consumer products, but they can pose health hazards.
Now, Purdue University researchers have developed a lower-cost, sustainable and greener method for producing composite boards – a method that is...
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