Record grain yields were last achieved in Louisiana during the 2014 growing season when we were blessed with very favorable weather conditions. Until 2018, each crop since 2014 had been successively lower yielding than the year before. Louisiana saw...
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By watching the numbers tick off your yield monitor during harvest or counting the number of trailers coming out of your fields, you likely were beginning to consider what varieties...
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Providing Southern rice farmers with the best chance to make the most money from their crop, year in and year out, is a mission that seed provider...
A new program built on the multi-use account through John Deere Financial will offer Southern rice producers zero percent APR financing on purchases of Horizon Ag Clearfield and Provisia rice seed and BASF crop protection products for 2019.
Eligible rice...
The 2018 rice harvest in southwest Louisiana is past the halfway point, and Louisiana State University AgCenter agents say farmers are pleased.
“Yields have been good, and it seems overall to be a very good crop,” says Jeremy Hebert, LSU...
By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Coming off the successful commercial launch of the first Provisia rice variety — PVL01 — this season, partners Horizon Ag, BASF and the Louisiana State University AgCenter are already mulling their next release.
Depending how it performs...
Horizon Ag plans to hold its Arkansas Field Day, Aug. 2, at Mark Wimpy Farms near Jonesboro.
The event will spotlight the performance of the new PVL01, a Provisia rice variety planted commercially for the first time this season, along...
The 2018 Horizon Ag Louisiana Field Day, featuring the new Provisia Rice System, Provisia rice variety PVL01 and the latest Clearfield rice varieties, will be held June 26 at Richard Farms near Kaplan, Louisiana.
Horizon Ag partnered with BASF to...
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...
With the first commercial fields of Provisia Rice planted this season, the University of Arkansas has added a new color to the Flag the Technology line-up to identify rice tolerant to Provisia Herbicide.
Flag the Technology is a quick and...
Drs. Steve Linscombe and Johnny Saichuk, both retired Louisiana State University AgCenter researchers, were honored with distinguished service awards from the 2018 Rice Technical Working Group.
RTWG is an international group of rice experts that meets every even-numbered year to collaborate...
A weed not typically associated with flooded rice fields has begun to trouble at least one Arkansas rice producer.
The Poinsett County grower first brought the problem of stinkgrass to the attention of Bob Scott, University of Arkansas Extension weed...
Growers host farm-scale demonstrations to learn more about the new weed-control system.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
Kaplan, La., rice producer Christian Richard, who has a 20-acre demonstration field of Provisia rice, looks forward to having the herbicide-tolerant system as another weedy rice...
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 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,...
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