• By Lesley Dixon •
In lieu of in-person meetings at the now-canceled 2020 USA Rice Outlook Conference, the annual state outlook and research reports will be held live via webinar. The bedrock of the Outlook Conference and the culmination...
• By Mary Hightower •
A team led by Tommy Butts, Extension weed scientist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, will be exploring new ways to manage herbicide-resistant weeds in row rice and traditional flooded field production,...
• By Steve Linscombe, Josh Hankins and Emily Woodall •
It's been a week since Hurricane Laura made landfall in the rice country of southwest Louisiana, carving a path of destruction with winds and rain that then moved on through...
Since September 2005, Hurricane Rita has been southwest Louisiana's reference for measuring the severity of weather events. Yesterday, thanks to Hurricane Laura, this area received a new reference point and a wound from which it will take some time...
Rice harvest is approaching in the Mississippi Delta, and early signs point to good yields in 2020.
Bobby Golden, rice specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service and an assistant professor with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station,...
Row crop growers in Mississippi used a relatively dry May to make up for planting time lost earlier in the spring due to wet weather and soggy fields.
As of May 24, planting progress for the state’s four major row...
Prevention is key to avoiding grain bin rescues. Knowing what to do in a bin entrapment emergency also is crucial.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Before Wayne Dulaney’s crew entered a grain bin near Clarksdale, Mississippi, in January, he reminded them...
Mississippi’s 259 rice-producing farms rank the state No. 5 nationally in rice production, a fact highlighted in September when Mississippians are urged to “Think Rice.”
They also are invited to celebrate rice and bring awareness to this important row crop...
The third week of March is usually the beginning of rice planting season in Mississippi, but fields were not dry enough to hold tractors until May in most locations.
Many growers were still scrambling to get rice in the ground...
The 2019 rice planting season seems like it’s running in slow motion.
Nationwide, slightly more than half of the anticipated acres had been planted as of May 12, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Crop Progress report. That compares...
Mississippi State University has hired Drew Gholson as an assistant professor and the irrigation specialist with the MSU Delta Research and Extension Center and the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer Water Center. He began his new job April 1...
Sure to be a best-seller, Mississippi State University's "2019 Insect Control Guide for Agronomic Crops" is available for free download from https://bit.ly/2tahYVv.
The 129-page manual contains insect-related information on the gamut of Delta crops, ranging from rice to soybeans and cotton.
In...
• By Bobby Golden and Dan Roach •
Producing rice in a “rowed-up” manner as other row crops such as corn, soybean and cotton, was a foreign concept just a couple of years ago. Row rice or furrow-irrigated rice was...
Although fall-applied residual herbicides are recommended to control glyphosate-resistant Italian ryegrass, some can be detrimental to the following year's rice crop, according to recently published research.
Involved in the project were Ben Lawrence, a Mississippi State University graduate student; Dr....
Mississippi growers will produce about 20 percent more rice this year, thanks in part to additional acres planted over 2017’s total.
Larry Falconer, agricultural economist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, says early forecasts predict national yields near last...
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