Horizon Ag, University of Arkansas join to introduce two Clearfield varieties.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
In partnership with the University of Arkansas and BASF, Horizon Ag plans to introduce two Clearfield varieties for seed production this season and for commercial planting...
• By Bruce Schultz •
In a series of meetings in southwest Louisiana, Louisiana State University AgCenter experts offered farmers advice for growing their 2019 crop.
Farmers met recently in Welsh, Abbeville, Ville Platte and Crowley only a few weeks from the...
The Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association has filled its Agricultural Technology and Management Conference, Feb. 11-13, to the brim with a broad array of general session topics and break-out sessions for consultants, applicators and growers.
General session topics range from bollworm...
Mississippi State University will hold its annual Rice Producer Field Day, Aug. 2, at the Delta Research and Extension Center near Stoneville beginning at 3:30 p.m.
After a brief welcome at the Capps Center, trailers will depart for the field...
The California Rice Experiment Station in Biggs, in partnership with the California Rice Research Foundation and the University of California, will host its annual Rice Field Day Aug. 29.
The program begins at 8:30 a.m. with a general session that includes...
The University of Arkansas has updated its DD50 rice management program to provide more accurate reports and easier access, especially on mobile devises.
The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board provided funding for the upgrade, says Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice...
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....
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter rice breeding program isn't resting on its laurels after the successful release of PVL01, the first variety with tolerance to Provisia herbicide. In the pipeline are PVL108, which makes up for...
Rice farmers at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station field day on June 27 will hear about research being conducted to help them grow a better crop.
“This is an opportunity for our faculty members to tell...
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...
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension has scheduled the 43rd annual Eagle Lake Rice Field Day for 4 p.m., June 26, at the Wintermann Rice Research Station on Farm-to-Market Road 102 just north of Eagle Lake.
The field day will offer...
Due to a long dry fall, Missouri growers have leveled and prepared their fields and are ready to plant. Recent rains have saturated our soils, so early seeding has been delayed, which is OK because we still have time...
In the past few years, the number of calls I have received about disease management has increased considerably. Most of them were about stem rot, a disease that seems prevalent in many areas of the Sacramento Valley.
Stem rot is...
Rutgers-led genome research finds fungal pathogen that causes rice disease became harmful 21 million years ago.
About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating rice disease first became harmful to the food that nourishes roughly half the...
The Arkansas rice planting season in 2017 went at a near-record pace, lagging behind only 2012. Planted acres were expected to be 25 percent less than in 2016. The positive early season conditions had growers feeling upbeat about the...
