Monday, January 12, 2026

cool weather

Rice mills didn’t escape the great deep freeze of 2021

• By Michael Klein • The rice industry was reeling from severe weather in 2020 – the most named hurricanes to hit the United States ever and devastating wildfires out West. Optimists felt the new year would bring better everything,...

Cool weather slows Mississippi rice planting, emergence

By Susan M. Collins-Smith — Spring’s cool temperatures have rice producers playing the waiting game in Mississippi. The crop is 60 percent planted, but very little of it has emerged, says Bobby Golden, a rice and soil fertility agronomist with...

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