rice varieties & hybrids

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...

BASF Corp. and the Israeli company, Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd. recently announced they will be partnering on developing herbicide-tolerant non-GMO crops using the Kaiima's proprietary EP technology platform. Although the technology is applicable to most crops, Kaiima has focused on a...

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...

At the June 28 Louisiana State University AgCenter rice field day, members of the Louisiana rice industry took the opportunity to recognize Dr. Steve Linscombe, who is retiring on Sept. 30 after 35 years of service. For most of those...

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,...

Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain has temporarily lowered the state's rice seed germination standards for 120 days. "While performing routine tests like purity and germination on seed rice, the LDAF Seed Lab discovered the quality was...

Horizon Ag expects to have adequate 2017 seed supplies of its tried-and-true Clearfield varieties. By Vicky Boyd Editor The same weather issues that took a toll on much of the Mid-South’s 2016 rice crop also affected seed production for Horizon Ag. But...

Poor weather and unexpected increase in rice acreage combine to tighten RiceTec hybrid seed supplies for 2017. By Vicky Boyd Editor The same hot nighttime temperatures and untimely rains that significantly reduced rice yields in many parts of the Mid-South in 2016 also affected RiceTec’s seed...

Check out proven and new releases for the coming season. Once that last bushel, barrel or hundredweight of rice is in the bin, you can review how selected Clearfield varieties and/or hybrids performed on your operation during 2016. Consider each field individually along...

Memphis, Tenn.-based Horizon Ag has announced a partnership with the Israeli firm, Kaiima Bio-Agritech Ltd., to develop high-performing rice varieties. The two began the multi-year project, which involves using Kaiima’s proprietary EP technology platform, in 2015. EP technology, short for enhanced...

Think you have some pretty good yields? See how you fare against fellow California producers with the University of California Cooperative Extension's Rice Yield Contest. This season, UCCE expanded it to include the entire Sacramento Valley. Last year, it just held...