The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts that farmers in the six rice-producing states will plant about 2.69 million acres, or about 9 percent more, than in 2017, according to figures in the USDA’s March 29 planting intentions report. The USDA...

Pipe Planner, which helps you figure out how many holes to punch in collapsible poly tubing for use with multiple-inlet irrigation, has been optimized to work on touch-based iOS or Android mobile devices. There also is a a new,...

The California Air Resources Board recently approved a plan to greatly increase the amount of incentive funds available in the Sacramento Valley to help farmers replace older tractors and other farm equipment. Under the proposed FARMER – or Funding Agricultural...

With the first commercial fields of Provisia Rice planted this season, the University of Arkansas has added a new color to the Flag the Technology line-up to identify rice tolerant to Provisia Herbicide. Flag the Technology is a quick and...

Terry Siebenmorgen, director of the University of Arkansas’s Rice Processing Program, received the Rice Technical Working Group Distinguished Service Award at the organization’s biennial meeting recently in Long Beach, California. The award recognizes Siebenmorgen’s career-long research to improve post-harvest rice...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates California's Central Valley Project, updated water allocations originally made Feb. 20. Agricultural water service contractors north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will now receive an allocation of 20 percent, according to a...

.danger {background-color: #E5E4E2; border-left: 6px solid #006600; padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px;} The Louisiana State University AgCenter has released a new hybrid rice with high quality and competitive yield potential. The long-grain hybrid, LAH169, was developed at the H. Rouse...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison has signed a joint resolution from the state House and Senate supporting a standard of identity be developed for rice and its wild rice relatives. Specifically, the resolution says that rice should be defined as whole...

SPONSORED CONTENT Despite an unusually wet spring in 2017, most Northern California rice producers were still able to get their fields planted on time, thanks to larger equipment that can cover more acres than decades ago. That doesn’t mean that...

SPONSORED CONTENT After hearing good things about Loyant herbicide, Hunter Carter — who farms with his brother, Drew — was able to see firsthand how it performed on their own operation last season. The Carters were part of a handful...

It’s time to finalize early season weed control decisions in Missouri rice. These decisions depend on already selected choices of several systems, such as furrow-irrigated, paddy-flooded, water-seeded, Clearfield, Provisia, hybrids or conventional rice. Then there’s weed history, soil types, soil...

While front-loading expenses at the beginning of the season can be difficult to deal with, it’s a wise investment to protect your overall bottom line. Beyond seed selection, the use of seed treatments and residual herbicides are our best...

We know some of you do a lot of fall/winter tillage to control weeds. However, a spring burndown herbicide application or tillage just prior to seeding can help achieve a clean seedbed. Practicing a stale seedbed can also help...

Early season rice injury due to off-target preemergence soybean herbicides has been a continual issue in the Mississippi Delta over the past several years. In the past, most of the early season issues centered on glyphosate drift, but with...

Weed control in California rice has become more complicated over the past few years, both due to increasing number of herbicide-resistant weeds as well as new weeds, including weedy rice and for some, winged-primrose willow. Just as we were...