The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Texas has set the first funding application deadline of April 3 for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. If additional financial assistance funds are still available, a second funding application deadline will be scheduled...
Begin scouting early to catch the pest before it can cause significant yield loss.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For three out of the past five years, growers and consultants have found the rice planthopper in scattered fields of second-crop rice...
Texas rice farmers are seeing near-record yields of good quality grain, and many are considering a second harvest, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Research experts.
Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research crop physiologist, Beaumont, says despite a few problems for some...
Most areas of Texas have set or tied high temperature records this summer, including a string of 100-plus days last week, according to the state climatologist.
Although much of the state's rice acres were planted early enough they are past...
"Emerging Technologies for Texas Rice" will be the theme for the 71st annual field day, July 12, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beaumont, 1509 Aggie Drive.
The free event begins with field tours at 8 a.m., an...
Texas AgriLife Research and Extension has scheduled the 43rd annual Eagle Lake Rice Field Day for 4 p.m., June 26, at the Wintermann Rice Research Station on Farm-to-Market Road 102 just north of Eagle Lake.
The field day will offer...
In Texas, our main rice pests are the rice water weevil, chinch bug, rice stink bug and stem borers — primarily the Mexican rice borer. We have tools to control all these pests, but we must use these insecticides...
We know some of you do a lot of fall/winter tillage to control weeds. However, a spring burndown herbicide application or tillage just prior to seeding can help achieve a clean seedbed. Practicing a stale seedbed can also help...
Colombian trip helps Texas A&M entomologist learn more about a rice planthopper and prepare in case it reappears in the South.
By Mo Way, Fernando Correa and Maribel Cruz
The rice delphacid (Tagosodes orizicolus) is a serious rice pest in much...
I was recently talking with a very reputable Texas rice consultant, and he highly recommended spreading your planting date so all your rice does not mature at the same time. I recall in 2016 rice storage capacity in Texas...
A reservoir under construction west of Houston will serve many beneficiaries, including the rice industry.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
The 40-foot earthen and concrete embankments that ring the 40,000 acre-foot Arbuckle Reservoir are essentially completed, with crews continuing to work on...
Hurricane created numerous hurdles for the Texas rice industry.
By M.O. Way
The big story for Texas rice in 2017 was Harvey, which dumped 34 trillion gallons of water over Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana from Sunday, Aug. 27, to Thursday,...
Hurricane Harvey, which decimated parts of South Central Texas and the upper Gulf Coast, caused more than $200 million in crop and livestock losses, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists. Included in that were $8 million of...
Yields, pest control and cultivation have advanced during the past five decades as Texas growers strive to remain profitable.
By L.T. “Ted” Wilson
Rice production in Texas has changed greatly over the past 50 years. Table 1 summarizes a few of the major differences...
When it rains, it pours.
Rice producers in Texas who have suffered from reduced water deliveries and four years of drought now are experiencing too much rain.
As a result, officials with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension predict yields may...
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