Putting the ‘good’ in Goodland Farms.
⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅
Associate Editor
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aving grown up in the expansive rice country of Northeast Arkansas, David Caudell never had any intention of moving to Texas. However, after coming down to visit an area...
New DG263L Dyna-Gro long grain impresses with strong yields and milling.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Jeff Reidhar, who farms rice near Des Arc, Arkansas, likes to explore his options as new varieties or technologies come out. When Dyna-Gro offered him...
Since 1910, four generations of the Schiurring family have harvested rice on the 3S Ranch near El Campo in Colorado and Wharton counties, Texas. The family grows approximately 1,500 acres of long-grain rice annually.
Third-generation, J. Brent Schiurring was one...
• By Steve Linscombe and Kane Webb •
Texas rice harvest is well underway west of Houston and just getting started on the east side of the state. This is typical as the west zone tends to plant earlier than...
Texas rice growers need drier conditions to harvest a main crop before quality begins to fade along with hopes for a second harvest, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research expert.
Like many Texas crops along the Gulf Coast this...
Cooler temperatures and widespread rain events across Texas have forage and crop producers scrambling to fight armyworms, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton, said inquiries about the pest have...
The 47th annual Eagle Lake Rice Field Day is scheduled for 5 p.m., June 29, at the Eagle Lake Community Center, 100 N. Walnut Ave., in Eagle Lake, Texas.
“We are looking forward to hosting our local rice producers and...
Texas rice grower Jacko Garrett continues to ‘share the harvest’ through his charitable efforts.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For more than three decades, Danbury, Texas, rice producer Jacko Garrett has been growing rice specifically to donate to the Houston Food...
• By Michael Klein •
The rice industry was reeling from severe weather in 2020 – the most named hurricanes to hit the United States ever and devastating wildfires out West. Optimists felt the new year would bring better everything,...
Struggling families in a 21-county area served by the Central Texas Food Bank will have something to be thankful for this Christmas as the Western Rice Belt Conference Committee donated 11,000 pounds of rice.
Committee members, who farm in an...
• By Lesley Dixon •
In lieu of in-person meetings at the now-canceled 2020 USA Rice Outlook Conference, the annual state outlook and research reports will be held live via webinar. The bedrock of the Outlook Conference and the culmination...
• By Steve Linscombe, Josh Hankins and Emily Woodall •
It's been a week since Hurricane Laura made landfall in the rice country of southwest Louisiana, carving a path of destruction with winds and rain that then moved on through...
Since September 2005, Hurricane Rita has been southwest Louisiana's reference for measuring the severity of weather events. Yesterday, thanks to Hurricane Laura, this area received a new reference point and a wound from which it will take some time...
Texas wheat and rice producers could see opportunities as food grains show steadiness amid calamity for other commodities, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.
Dr. Mark Welch, AgriLife Extension economist, College Station, said food grains have avoided much...
• 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....
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