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• By Scott Stiles • After touching $14/cwt. in trading Monday and Tuesday, November rice futures turned lower to finish the week. Renewed strength in the U.S. dollar may have played a role in the rice market’s weakness. In trading Tuesday,...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has appointed new members to the Arkansas State Plant Board to fill positions left vacant under an Arkansas Supreme Court ruling earlier this year. “The Plant Board is one of the most significant commissions for Arkansas agriculture,...

Despite the cancellation of the Horizon Ag Arkansas Field Days in Stuttgart and Jonesboro this summer due to Covid-19, the company wanted to provide growers an opportunity to learn more about its offerings in the Delta — Clearfield varieties...

• By Scott Stiles • Rice futures pushed beyond key resistance this week. In trading Tuesday, the November contract managed to close above $13.80 for the first time since Aug. 16. Nearby chart resistance is at the August high of...

• By Scott Stiles • Solid gains this week in Chicago Board of Trade rice futures following the September WASDE. The November contract closed higher in four straight sessions, gaining 48 cents before hitting chart resistance at $13.80 Thursday, Sept....

Arkansas Gov. Governor Hutchinson, along with Tim and Robin Ralston of Ralston Family Farms, recently announced that a rice shipment from their farm is the first Arkansas rice to be exported to China. Through a contract with a private importer...

• By Scott Stiles • Favorable news Friday in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s supply/demand and crop production reports. November rice futures closed 17 cents higher at $13.48 per cwt. following the reports. USDA made several adjustments to the new crop...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Despite a year featuring record flooding, heavy insect pressure and a near brush with a recent hurricane, Arkansas rice is moving toward a harvest that may see near-record yields on par with the past several...

• By Scott Stiles • Hurricane Ida did not provide the anticipated boost to the rice market this week. Rice futures followed the path of corn and soybeans, trading lower Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. November rice did settle 6 cents higher...

• By Mary Hightower • Arkansas growers will be paying closer attention to their weather apps with development of Tropical Depression 9 and a forecast path that could bring the storm’s wind and rain to the delta by early next...

Taking into consideration the health and safety of attendees, RiceTec released a video series of its typically in-person field day near Harrisburg, Arkansas. The five videos ranging in topics can be seen at https://www.ricetec.com/virtual-field-day-2021/. View the presentations from rice industry experts...

• By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Like much of America, the University of Arkansas’ Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center has experienced COVID-related supply chain disruptions, which shut down machine shop construction for six weeks this spring. The project appears back on...

• By Mary Hightower • Arkansas rice growers battling yet another insect pest in their crops have until Aug. 28 to use Endigo ZC, after the Environmental Protection Agency issued a Section 18 exemption Aug. 13. Endigo is currently labeled for...

• By Fred Miller • The COVID-19 pandemic created a spike in global rice prices in the second quarter of 2020, according to a new University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture report. Since then, rice prices have remained higher...

• By Scott Stiles • Rice futures began the week higher with Monday’s crop progress indicating a slow start to harvest in Louisiana and Texas. Given that, the market kept a close eye on a tropical system heading into the...