⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s Rice Research and Extension Center seek to develop rice that is more resilient in the face of climate change...
⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Rice farmers with questions about funding contained in the omnibus bill signed last month by President Biden can find answers in a fact sheet released Friday by the University...
Seed rice farmer shares strategy for success.
⋅ By Carroll Smith ⋅
Editor
Wingmead is a large farm where rice, soybeans and corn are grown in Prairie County, Arkansas. It’s also a seed rice operation that prides itself on clean fields and...
New DG263L Dyna-Gro long grain impresses with strong yields and milling.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Jeff Reidhar, who farms rice near Des Arc, Arkansas, likes to explore his options as new varieties or technologies come out. When Dyna-Gro offered him...
What to plant is always one of the most important decisions of the rice season. For 2022, every decision will be met with increased scrutiny given the overall rise in production costs.
The first question is do you need a...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas row and field crops endured a 100-year flood and epic insect numbers but still ended the year with record cotton and rice yields and higher crop prices.
100-year flooding
In June, southeastern Arkansas experienced extraordinary flooding,...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
A win is still a win, even with an asterisk.
For several years now, Arkansas rice yields have been chasing the record, set in 2013 and then tied in 2014, of about 168 bushels per acre....
Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service’s efforts to help Arkansas growers succeed from field prep to harvest, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022.
Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and...
Arkansas family grows, markets specialty rices for burgeoning craft sake industry.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For years, Chris Isbell of Humnoke, Arkansas, has been growing different Japanese short-grain rice varieties experimentally, with the goal of producing them commercially for use...
Out-crossing with red rice creates multi-hued weedy rice.
• By Fred Miller •
Red rice in the field was a problem for rice growers, but at least it was easy to spot. Years of out-crossing with cultivated rice varieties has resulted...
The 2021 season wasn’t without its difficulties throughout the year, but overall, the grain yield results have been very good. So good, in fact, that a new state average yield record is currently projected at 168.9 bu/acre (7,600 lbs/acre)....
• By Fred Miller •
Food scientists at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed a new parboiling process that reduces water use up to 75% and improves nutrient content in rice.
Annegret Jannasch, a food science graduate student in the...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers have seen a little — or a lot — of everything this year, including record low temperatures and snowfall in February and a record rainstorm in June.
Nevertheless, many row crop farmers in the...
• By Scott Stiles •
The focal point for the rice market this week was the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly WASDE report released on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Changes to 2021/22 long-grain production were relatively minor.
However, there was a slight...
A project to measure greenhouse gases and water use in furrow-irrigated rice, and the use of cover crops as a remediation tool in land leveling are just two of the presentations that are part of the Northeast Rice Research...
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