⋅ BY FRED MILLER ⋅
U of A System Division of Agriculture
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he University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Anheuser-Busch are partnering to research and promote resource conservation for rice farming in Arkansas and the surrounding region. Their focus...
⋅ By John Lovett ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
The Center for Arkansas Farms and Food will hold a fundraising event 5-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 to support the Farmers for Tomorrow fund, a new program to help Farm School and Apprenticeship...
Innovations featured at 113th LSU AgCenter Rice Field Day
LSU AgCenter rice researchers are once again inviting producers and industry professionals to the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station for its annual field day to be held Wednesday, June 29.
“We...
Rice Processing Program develops on-farm drying guidelines.
⋅ By John Lovett ⋅
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station’s Rice Processing Program has released new recommendations to guide on-farm, in-bin rice drying in Arkansas to maximize quality...
• By Mary Hightower •
A global economy loosened from a pandemic’s grip has bright spots in terms of farm income and land values, but COVID-19 is still influencing supply chain and consumer behavior, according to a report released recently...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
A win is still a win, even with an asterisk.
For several years now, Arkansas rice yields have been chasing the record, set in 2013 and then tied in 2014, of about 168 bushels per acre....
Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service’s efforts to help Arkansas growers succeed from field prep to harvest, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022.
Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and...
Out-crossing with red rice creates multi-hued weedy rice.
• By Fred Miller •
Red rice in the field was a problem for rice growers, but at least it was easy to spot. Years of out-crossing with cultivated rice varieties has resulted...
The 2021 season wasn’t without its difficulties throughout the year, but overall, the grain yield results have been very good. So good, in fact, that a new state average yield record is currently projected at 168.9 bu/acre (7,600 lbs/acre)....
• 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 Fred Miller •
Food scientists at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed a new parboiling process that reduces water use up to 75% and improves nutrient content in rice.
Annegret Jannasch, a food science graduate student in the...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers have seen a little — or a lot — of everything this year, including record low temperatures and snowfall in February and a record rainstorm in June.
Nevertheless, many row crop farmers in the...
• By Scott Stiles •
The focal point for the rice market this week was the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s monthly WASDE report released on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Changes to 2021/22 long-grain production were relatively minor.
However, there was a slight...
The University of Arkansas, in collaboration with The Organic Center and the University of California Cooperative Extension, has been awarded nearly $500,000 through U.S. Department of Agriculture's Organic Research and Extension Institute. The funding will help support a three-year...
A project to measure greenhouse gases and water use in furrow-irrigated rice, and the use of cover crops as a remediation tool in land leveling are just two of the presentations that are part of the Northeast Rice Research...
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