Rice Advice

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Wendell Minson Bootheel Crop Consultants Dexter, Missouri I received a B.S. degree in agricultural education from the University of Missouri. After obtaining a teaching certificate, I taught vocational agriculture for four years in Dexter, Missouri, before going to work...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Pat Roberts AGvice Crop Consulting McGehee, Arkansas I got involved with agriculture in high school working in the summers for a local farmer. After that, I wanted to be a farmer myself and was always on the lookout for...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Ross Wood, C.C.A. Stratton Seed Co. Stuttgart, Arkansas I grew up in Waldenburg, Arkansas, where my grandfather farmed rice, soybeans and wheat, and my parents owned and operated an agricultural flying service. Aviation was my passion with the goal...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Thad Baker PCA, Helena Agri-Enterpises LLC Chico and Yuba City, California I grew up farming with my dad and uncle in the 1970s-80s on a large ranch established by my grandfather. We were one of the first families to...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Jared Wood Hefty Seed Co. Augusta, Arkansas Growing up in the Arkansas Delta, I have always been out on the farm. When I became of age to work, I helped area rice growers put in levee gates in the...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Rick Deviney Deviney Ag Service DeWitt, Arkansas While in college, I scouted cotton and worked for a flying service. After graduating, I was a crop duster until 2010 when my friend who had a crop consulting business hired...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Barry Morrell Colusa County Farm Supply Williams, California I was born and raised in Kelseyville in Lake County, California, where my parents were farmers and ranchers. After graduating from Chico State, I worked as a seed salesman for...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • I am a California Pest Control Adviser and fourth-generation farmer in northern California. We grow rice, dairy, corn and alfalfa. While working on the family farm, I received my PCA license and joined Simplot Crop Solutions...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Because my family farmed, I have been around agriculture my entire life. In 2001, I started Gifford Crop Consulting, and my son, Miles, will join the business fulltime in May after graduating from Arkansas State University....

• SPONSORED CONTENT • The Helena Agri-Enterprises research group in the West is a true, third-party contract research organization. For example, if a basic manufacturer wants to develop a product and potentially bring it to market to help farmers be...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • In my area, rice farmers use different methods to plant rice — dry planting and water seeding. Starting clean is rule No. 1 in any rice planting system. An early spring burndown on winter vegetation is...

I grew up in the little community of Richvale, which is a centralized hub for rice in the Sacramento Valley. My spring and summer jobs were driving a tractor for local growers and working at Jones Flying Service. My...

Last year, we struggled coming out of the gate with all the rainfall we experienced. It was a challenge to get a rice stand in some fields, which resulted in a lot of replanting. After we finally got the...

I grew up on a rice farm in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. After graduating from McNeese State University, G&H Seed Co. hired me to work in the warehouse and run the seed treatment division. I later transferred to the field...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • My brother, Jon, and I got our start in the late 1980s when the farm economy was in a decade-long slump. Commodity prices were below cost of production, interest rates on capital were in the double...