LSU releases an early, high-yielding long grain and a high-amylose long grain for parboiling and export markets.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter has released two conventional rice varieties — a high-yielding, early long grain and a...
LSU-bred higher-protein, low-glycemic rice variety gains traction.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Rice already has a strong nutritional profile. After all, it is one of the first solid foods recommended for babies because of its ease of digestibility.
Two producers want to...
• By John Lovett •
Artisanal gins from Wonderbird Spirits in Mississippi are the only known American gins in commercial production that start with rice as the base, and they are made from an aromatic variety created by rice breeders...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter may have canceled its in-person rice field day in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, but research on the station near Crowley continued with nary a disruption following proper safety...
• By Deborah Willenborg •
At the opening of the Allen Parish Rice Growers Association annual meeting May 26 in Kinder, Louisiana, President Eric Savant, a local rice grower, welcomed everyone back in-person for the first time in more than...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Short-grain rice developed by the Louisiana State University AgCenter has been planted for a New Orleans company to make sake, a traditional Japanese beverage that is becoming more popular in the United States.
The Pirogue variety...
New Texas long-grain release offers stronger yield potential than Presidio
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Texas A&M AgriLife Research is releasing Trinity, a new conventional long-grain rice variety with better first- and second-crop yield potential than Presidio — a previous Texas...
The Healthy Crops team, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have used gene tools to develop new varieties of disease-resistant rice that U.S. and Colombian regulators have determined are equivalent to what could be accomplished with...
• By Fred Miller •
Christian De Guzman has joined the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture as an assistant professor and rice breeder at the Rice Research and Extension Center near Stuttgart.
De Guzman was a rice breeder and...
Karen Moldenhauer had already announced her June 30 retirement when Bob Scott, director of the Rice Research and Extension, said he needed to visit with her.
Moldenhauer, a professor and rice breeder for the University of Arkansas System Division of...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Since acquiring Bayer’s rice breeding program in 2015, Nutrien Ag Solutions has mostly flown under the radar developing new rice cultivars for the U.S. market.
That will change in 2021 with the launch of DGL-263X, a...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter showed off a number of promising varieties that potentially could be released in coming years during its recent first-ever virtual rice field day.
The annual event, held at the university's H....
Despite coronavirus restrictions, rice breeding programs continue albeit with a few changes.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
In mid-March, University of Arkansas rice breeder Xueyan Sha decided only a few days before his scheduled trip to the university’s Puerto Rican winter...
• By Fred Miller •
Jewel, a new mid-season, long-grain rice variety from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, offers high yields and resistance to most known blast races.
In 14 Arkansas Rice Performance Trials conducted over three years,...
The American Multi Cultural Ethnic Coalition recently honored Louisiana State University AgCenter rice researcher Ida Wenefrida as one of the Top 20 Global Woman of Excellence for 2020 at a recent Chicago ceremony.
The honor recognizes women from around the...
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