As rice begins to head in Arkansas, many producers and consultants are checking fields for rice stink bug, but their sampling technique could be costing them money.
While working on an improved treatment threshold — which indicates the density of...
Tom Barber, Extension weed scientist for the University of Arkansas System, says unusual rainfall patterns made this season a rough one for many Arkansas crops.
“This is the grassiest rice crop we’ve seen in a while, but it’s also been...
It appears the Food and Drug Administration may begin enforcing a standard of identity that defines milk as a “lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.”
This would mean the...
The Arkansas Rice Expo is taking a hiatus this year, with the annual event in Stuttgart returning to its field-tour format.
The Arkansas Rice Field Day at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart is planned for Aug. 3....
Fall armyworms, a common pest of soybeans, pastures and lawns, have developed a taste for rice, and Extension entomologists are working on management methods to help producers.
Gus Lorenz and Nick Bateman, Extension entomologists with the University of Arkansas, say...
RiceTec will show off several new technologies during its Arkansas Field Day, Aug. 7, at the company's Arkansas Business Center, 15329 Highway 1 in Harrisburg.
The afternoon program will showcase new products RiceTec plans to bring to the market within...
Nathan Slaton, head of the Arkansas Soil Testing Lab, has been appointed assistant director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station effective July 1.
“I am thrilled about Dr. Slaton’s willingness to become a full-time member of the Agricultural Experiment Station’s...
Eight family farms, including three rice operations, were named district winners in the 71st annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program.
The district winners will now be judged to determine a state winner to be announced Dec. 6 at the...
As the nation’s No. 1 rice producer, Arkansas can have an outsized effect on U.S. rice production one year to the next, depending on fates largely tied to the weather. And 2018 is shaping up to be anything but...
As rice acreage expands in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas is working on a research center to enhance production techniques and best management practices for the grain in areas north of Interstate 40 and west of Crowley’s Ridge.
“Our immediate...
A never-before-described gene that gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by Agricultural Research Service plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
Rice...
Toward the end of May and really into June, most of the rice crop will be ready to start flooding, depending on conditions. This is the time when we will begin to set our first yield component — number...
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Arkansas rice researchers work to expand GreenSeeker use across the state.
By Jarrod Hardke and Trent Roberts
Rice production is a costly endeavor with...
To help promote water conservation, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission is offering financial incentives in the form of tax credits to state farmers and landowners who make land improvements.
Among those are building surface water reservoirs, land leveling, converting from groundwater...
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...
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