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Horizon Ag redesigns its website, making it more user friendly

Horizon Ag has resigned its website, www.horizonseed.com, to make it easier for farmers and seed dealers to access tools and information about the latest Clearfield and Provisia rice varieties. “At Horizon Ag, we are always striving to improve our...

Meet the 2017 Rice Award recipients

Learn more about the three rice industry leaders recently recognized with 2017 Rice Awards at the USA Rice Outlook Conference in San Antonio. They are (from left to right in the photo): • Christian Richard, a rice producer from Kaplan, Louisiana,...

2018 Rice Variety/Hybrid Roster

Check out proven and new releases for the coming season. Once that last bushel, barrel or hundredweight of rice is in the bin, you can review how selected Clearfield varieties and/or hybrids performed on your operation during 2017. Consider each field individually along...

Horizon Ag hires Hugh Beckham to head sales and marketing

Horizon Ag has hired industry veteran Hugh Beckham as director of sales and marketing. Beckham, whose career includes sales leadership and management with DuPont Pioneer, Monsanto and SF Services, brings more than 25 years of experience in the Southern seed business....

Horizon Ag, BASF ink pact to launch Provisia Rice System in 2018

Horizon Ag and BASF have reached a formal agreement to launch the Provisia Rice System in 2018, providing a new tool for post-emergence control of a broad range of grasses, including weedy rice. Like the Clearfield Production System for rice,...

Two new ones launched

Horizon Ag expects to have adequate 2017 seed supplies of its tried-and-true Clearfield varieties. By Vicky Boyd Editor The same weather issues that took a toll on much of the Mid-South’s 2016 rice crop also affected seed production for Horizon Ag. But...

2017 Rice Variety/Hybrid Roster

Check out proven and new releases for the coming season. Once that last bushel, barrel or hundredweight of rice is in the bin, you can review how selected Clearfield varieties and/or hybrids performed on your operation during 2016. Consider each field individually along...

Horizon Ag, Israeli firm team to develop high-performing varieties

Memphis, Tenn.-based Horizon Ag has announced a partnership with the Israeli firm, Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd., to develop high-performing rice varieties. The two began the multi-year project, which involves using Kaiima’s proprietary EP technology platform, in 2015. EP technology, short for enhanced...

Horizon Ag’s 3 new Clearfield varieties boast improved grain quality, agronomics

Horizon Ag continues its quest to provide the industry improved grain quality and better agronomics with the introduction of two long-grain and one medium-grain Clearfield variety for the 2017 season. The releases, which are naturally tolerant to the imazethapyr herbicide, are...

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