• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas ranked No. 1 in the nation in rice exports, according to the State Agricultural Trade database released this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
The $722 million contribution by rice was part of the state’s...
• By Scott Stiles •
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its much-anticipated June Acreage report this week. The most surprising aspect of the report was the lack of change from the March intentions.
Likely the report left traders with more...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
We have been observing large numbers of rice stink bugs (RSB) in native grasses along ditch banks and turn rows over the past several weeks. I know, I know, we...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...
• By Josh Hankins •
Additional reporting by Lydia Holmes, Steve Linscombe, Kane Webb and Emily Woodall.
As the floodwaters from recent rainstorms in Southeastern Arkansas to recede, damage from the weather is still being assessed, though it is feared the...
• By Mary Hightower •
The Rohwer Research Station in Desha County is known for hosting row crop variety trials as well as pest management and soil fertility experiments. This week it earned a bit of notoriety in another field:...
• By Scott Stiles •
Although the futures market disagreed and closed lower on Thursday, the June WASDE adjustments were somewhat favorable for rice. The “new crop” or 2021/22 long-grain ending stocks were reduced 2 million cwt to 30.1 million....
• By Jarrod Hardke •
“At some point it can’t get any wetter, it can only get deeper.” The south half of Arkansas is feeling that statement this week. Torrential rains struck areas of east-central and southeast Arkansas with places...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared a state of emergency Thursday in response to the record rainfall and flooding in the southeastern area of the state.
The declaration allows him to direct $100,000 from the Governor’s Disaster...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
By Tuesday morning, the soils Desha County had seen an almost complete reversal of fortune.
“A week ago, we were needing the rain,” John Farabough, Desha county agricultural Extension agent, said. “We went from powder-dry dust...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
Our rice water weevil plots went to flood two weeks ago, and RWW activity has been extremely low. These plots are located in Stuttgart, where RWW pressure is low to...
• By Scott Stiles •
For rice, it has been a shortened week of narrow trading ranges and declining volume. Open interest was leaking steadily this week out of the old crop July contract and building gradually over in the...
• By Yeshi Wamishe and Jarrod Hardke •
The production of hydrogen sulfide in some soil types due to an interplay between soil chemistry and microbes under anaerobic/ flooded conditions may affect rice starting early in its development. Does your...
Phrases such as “carbon markets,” “carbon banking” or “carbon smart agriculture and forestry” may not be familiar, but they are being used to describe a means of addressing climate change that has the potential to significantly impact agriculture.
These terms,...
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