• By Scott Stiles •
The big news this week came on Thursday, July 29, with the announcement of U.S. rice sales to Iraq. This pushed nearby futures up to $13.85 at one point in Thursday’s trading.
September rice futures followed...
• By Mary Hightower •
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days, with some morphing into online formats.
The Division of Agriculture had four in-person field days on...
A new $1 million grant from NASA’s Carbon Monitoring Program will go toward a study of greenhouse gases and its implications on rice production. Heading the research is University of Arkansas associate professor of biological engineering Benjamin Runkle.
The grant, titled...
• By Mary Hightower •
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture entomologists are seeking an emergency exemption to allow for the use of Intrepid to help control armyworms that threaten the state’s 1.24 million acres of rice.
“This is the...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
Armyworm calls have picked up big time this week. A majority of the fields with armyworms in them is row rice at various stage, spanning from early tiller all the...
• By Scott Stiles •
On July July 11, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. The most significant adjustments this month for long-grain were made to the old crop (2020-21)...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Firefighters, grain bin operators and farm workers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi are invited to attend an upcoming grain bin safety course on Monday, July 19 at the McGehee Men’s Club in McGehee, Arkansas.
The class...
• By Mary Hightower •
After COVID forced a virtual version last year, the in-person Arkansas Rice Field Day will be back Aug. 6 at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart.
“We’re glad to be back to a face-to-face...
• By Scott Stiles •
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports will be released Monday, July 12, at 11 a.m. central time.
As we discussed last week, the results of the June acreage...
• By Yeshi Wamishe and Jarrod Hardke •
In flooded or furrow-irrigated rice, most cultivars including hybrids are susceptible or moderately susceptible to kernel or false smut or both. Under favorable weather conditions, kernel and false smut are generally severe...
• By Mary Hightower •
The Aug. 12 Rice College will offer an intensive full-day look at the challenges facing Arkansas rice producers with a slate of researchers from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
Registration deadline for Rice...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas ranked No. 1 in the nation in rice exports, according to the State Agricultural Trade database released this week by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
The $722 million contribution by rice was part of the state’s...
• By Scott Stiles •
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its much-anticipated June Acreage report this week. The most surprising aspect of the report was the lack of change from the March intentions.
Likely the report left traders with more...
• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
We have been observing large numbers of rice stink bugs (RSB) in native grasses along ditch banks and turn rows over the past several weeks. I know, I know, we...
• By Fred Miller •
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture will present a series of online and in-person field days this summer that will display key research and Extension programs. The series will kick off with a...
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