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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...

Rice remains sensitive to soybean harvest-aid drift late into the season, according to MSU research. By Vicky Boyd, Editor — For the past few seasons, Mississippi State University Extension Rice Agronomist Bobby Golden and MSU graduate student Justin McCoy have received...

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...

Conventional flood and optimized AWD produced highest yields after two-year Mississippi State University trial. By Bobby Golden Producing rice in a “rowed-up” manner as other row crops such as corn, soybeans and cotton was a foreign concept just a few years...

Early season rice injury due to off-target preemergence soybean herbicides has been a continual issue in the Mississippi Delta over the past several years. In the past, most of the early season issues centered on glyphosate drift, but with...

Trials compare row rice to alternate wetting and drying with multiple-inlet irrigation. By Vicky Boyd Editor Curtis Berry has long-standing convictions about protecting the environment and natural resources. After hearing and reading about two irrigation systems with water-savings potential — alternate wetting...

With 2017 in the rearview mirror, we look forward to 2018 coming off the best yielding year we have had in Mississippi in the past few years. One of the first questions to ask is, “Do I plant the...

Rice acreage may be down in Mississippi this season, but the amount of ground devoted to rice research at Mississippi State University's Stoneville research station is as high as Extension agronomist Bobby Golden can remember. This year, the U.S. Department...

Early rice pioneers had to overcome doubting lenders and agronomic challenges to pave the way for today’s successful Mississippi rice industry. By Bobby R. Golden and Jason A. Bond Fifty years ago in 1966 marked the 18th year of farm-scale rice production...