• By Ching Lee •
Dry weather this spring has created ideal planting conditions for California rice farmers, but lack of available irrigation water has forced cutbacks to how much they can grow.
Unhindered by spring rains and soggy fields that...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Cool weather is taking its toll on young rice plants in south Louisiana while north Louisiana farmers are still waiting for fields to be dry enough for planting.
Dustin Harrell, LSU AgCenter agronomist, said rice plant...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Corn and rice growers were off to a strong start, planting 24% and 13% of total planned acreage, respectively. While the numbers were still well behind the five-year average for those crops at this point...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Rice planting is wrapping up in south Louisiana, but wet weather has kept farmers out of the fields in the north.
“It’s moving along pretty fast,” said Todd Fontenot, Louisiana State University AgCenter agent in Evangeline...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service has released its perspective planting report for 2021, and it shows a reduction in rice plantings of about 326,000 acres — or about 11% — nationwide compared to 2020.
Based on...
Southeast Texas experienced a severe cold snap lasting almost a week beginning about Valentine’s Day. The temperatures (both high and low) were well below freezing for several days. Some Texans were still without power and water the week of...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has released its 2020 acreage report shows U.S. rice growers planted slightly more than 2.9 million acres this season.
That compares to about 2.5 million acres in 2019. This figures are...
• By Bruce Linquist •
This morning, I was out with several members of our research team on the northwest side of the Sacramento Valley planting a variety trial. The grower we were working with had just finished planting all...
• By Emily Woodall •
Sporadic sunny skies after three months of steady rain have made planting a mixed bag in Missouri rice country.
On Blake Gerard's operation in nearby Cairo, Illinois, they planted their first rice acre of the...
• By Steve Linscombe •
Rice planting is progressing rapidly in the Texas rice production belt with some producers finishing earlier than normal.
L.G. Raun, who farms near El Campo, planted his entire crop (CL151) in a three-day span from Feb....
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers intend to plant about 1.39 million acres of rice in 2020, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released March 31. The acreage is a rebound from 2019’s 1.15 million acres but...
U.S. rice producers say they plan to plant 2.84 million acres this season, up 12% from the previous year’s planting intentions of 2.54 million acres, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service’s recently released planting...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Finally, some rice is in the ground. Barely.
Jarrod Hardke, Extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said Thursday that a handful of growers began water-seeding rice, a technique that typically...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Planting is underway or about to start for most crops in Louisiana, and farmers are watching the markets closely as the world economy reels from the fallout created by the novel coronavirus.
Louisiana State University AgCenter...
• By Kane Webb •
While things have slowed down across the country because of COVID-19, the past week and a half were busy for rice farmers in southwest Louisiana. Planting is underway and moving quickly, according to Dr. Dustin...
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