• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The California Rice Experiment Station has found a partner in Albaugh LLC to help bring their ROXY herbicide-tolerant rice system to market.
The agreement with the Ankeny, Iowa-based marketer of post-patent crop protection materials is the culmination...
Texas rice farmers are seeing near-record yields of good quality grain, and many are considering a second harvest, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Research experts.
Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research crop physiologist, Beaumont, says despite a few problems for some...
Mississippi growers will produce about 20 percent more rice this year, thanks in part to additional acres planted over 2017’s total.
Larry Falconer, agricultural economist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, says early forecasts predict national yields near last...
The 2018 rice harvest in southwest Louisiana is past the halfway point, and Louisiana State University AgCenter agents say farmers are pleased.
“Yields have been good, and it seems overall to be a very good crop,” says Jeremy Hebert, LSU...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
More than 1,500 farmers, community leaders and urbanites attending an Aug. 20 rally sent a passionate message to the California State Water Board about their disgust with its proposed unimpaired San Joaquin River flows.
The event...
If you know a grower or entity that has embraced sustainability through innovative practices and leadership, they might be a perfect candidate for the second annual USA Rice Sustainability Award.
Now in its second year, the award is designed to...
The entire fight over what can and can't be called rice has spilled over into a food that many in South Louisiana consider sacred — boudin.
For those not familiar with boudin, it is a sausage made of meat, whether...
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Whitney Brim-Deforest has been to several farm calls in the past few weeks about an unknown grass weed.
Between last season and this, she has seen seven fields that appear to have bad...
Billbugs, once an occasional pest of rice that cannot survive in standing water, are increasing pressure as row-rice acreage grows.
Billbugs are weevils whose larvae bore into the side of rice tillers, or stems, and deprive developing grain heads of...
Rice is beginning to head in the California rice-production area. As you scout your fields, keep weedy rice in mind.
In the past few weeks, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisers have received 10 suspect samples. Of these, two...
Representatives of the Missouri Rice Research and Merchandising Council and Southeast Missouri State University recently traveled to Egypt to discuss the potential for shipping Missouri paddy rice to Egypt and collaborating on rice breeding and agronomic rice research with...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Many growers for the first time got to see the FullPage herbicide-tolerant rice system growing in the field during RiceTec's recent field day near Harrisburg, Arkansas.
For the 2019 growing season, Alvin, Texas-based RiceTec plans a...
If you are high school seniors bound for college or know of one, the National Rice Month Scholarship contest may be for him or her.
The program, which involves creating a video, is open to graduating students from Arkansas, California, Louisiana,...
Arkansas producers have only to look to California to see what can happen if they don't follow a voluntary smoke management program and get their open-field burning under control.
"If we don't make an active attempt to manage this issue,...
A research greenhouse formally opened Aug. 2 further aids University of Arkansas efforts to stem yield loss after milling due to high nighttime temperatures.
Jay Coker, chairman of the Rice Research and Promotion Board, says the need for an advanced...
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