The University of Arkansas will hold a half-day rice college, Aug. 1, at the Rice Research & Extension Center in Stuttgart.
Among the highlights are:
• Crop consultants, industry personnel and producers will see current research on many of the production...
Arkansas’ rice crop, delayed by a wet spring and bludgeoned by high heat, is now facing a triple threat from Tropical Storm Barry, whose remnants are expected to drop heavy rain on the eastern side of the state on...
The 2019 Horizon Ag Arkansas Field Day, featuring CLM04 and CLL15, two new Clearfield rice varieties developed by the University of Arkansas, will be held Aug. 13 at Coleman Farms near Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Attendees also will have a chance to...
Better ways to manage weeds, soil fertility and learning the latest in variety breeding and testing are part of the wide-ranging agenda at the July 18 Row Crops Field Day at the Rohwer Research Station.
This event, the first of...
Tim Burcham will be stepping up his duties with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture as director of its planned Northeast Rice Research and Extension Center.
Burcham was previously dean of the Agriculture College at Arkansas State University...
The strangeness of Arkansas’ rain-soaked planting season sloshed over into Friday’s National Agricultural Statistics Service Acreage report, with the agency saying it would be collecting additional information on the state’s soybeans and cotton.
NASS said that in July, it would...
Sedges have exploded across Arkansas in 2019 throughout different cropping systems.
Additionally, a variety of unique sedge species have made themselves known this year, and others have popped up in areas where sedges have not previously been an issue.
These unique...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
Automatic fungicide applications for sheath blight in rice are highly discouraged due to the potential development of fungicide resistance and non-profitability. Although sheath blight can be reduced with best cultural practices, it is one of...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
There is already dew in the mornings and rain is in the forecast. Even with planting being later this year, it may still be time to start scouting for leaf blast in susceptible rice, particularly...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
If have fields with a history of hydrogen sulfide toxicity which led to a condition called autumn decline as in Figure 1 and 2, you need to begin scouting two weeks after establishing permanent flood....
• By Trent Roberts, Rick Norman and Jarrod Hardke •
Preflood nitrogen (N) applications in rice are very important for setting yield potential in rice as two of the three yield components (tiller number and seeds per panicle) are set...
• By Jarrod Hardke •
Rice drills continue to roll up and down eastern Arkansas. I think most are very aware we’ve been on the slowest planting pace in 25 years to get us here focusing on late May to...
The University of Arkansas's MP-144, also known as “Insecticide Recommendations for Arkansas,” has gone mobile.
Producers, agricultural agents and consultants will now have access to a comprehensive database of insecticide information at their fingertips, with the University of Arkansas System...
• By Yeshi Wamishe •
Field history is a major factor when considering to use fungicide seed treatments. If your field has a history of seed rot and seedling diseases (mostly blight and seedling death), it is highly possible you’re...
The 2019 rice planting season seems like it’s running in slow motion.
Nationwide, slightly more than half of the anticipated acres had been planted as of May 12, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Crop Progress report. That compares...
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