• By Nick Bateman, Gus Lorenz and Ben Thrash •
We have received multiple phone calls over the past week about rice water weevils, and based on our observations, it is trending toward a bad rice water weevil year. This...
Feral hogs continue to be a major problem in Arkansas, causing more than $19 million yearly to the state’s agriculture industry alone, according the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. In addition to crop losses, feral hogs damage pastures, destroy wildlife...
Erwin-Keith Inc. has named the two long-grain rice varieties it licensed from the University of Arkansas earlier this year. They will be marketed under the Progeny Ag brand and be called ProGold 1 and ProGold 2.
Under the agreement, the...
Arkansas revisits rice stink bug thresholds, finding they still balance grain damage with grower profitability.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
As two southern rice-producing states changed their rice stink bug thresholds, reducing the number that would trigger treatment, University of Arkansas...
Use plant growth stage and DD50 to gauge when best to make N applications.
• By Jarrod Hardke •
Proper nitrogen (N) management is all about timing. Whether we’re talking about preflood N, midseason N or boot N, we need to...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
As anyone who’s ever seen their working conditions boiled down to a single pair of digits can tell you, big numbers don’t always tell the whole story.
To see the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s tell it,...
Furrow-irrigated rice has been gaining ground, increasing from less than 1% to 10% of total rice acreage in Arkansas in the past five years.
The “Arkansas Furrow-Irrigated Rice Handbook” provides research-based information about selecting cultivars, establishing stands, and managing fertility,...
Like people, some plants handle stress better than others.
Now, in a recent issue of Agronomy, a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists report their identification of U.S. rice varieties with the right "genetic" stuff for coping...
The University of Arkansas recently published the "Arkansas Furrow-Irrigated Rice Handbook" that is available online.
This new publication is aimed at providing recommendations for the increasingly popular rice-production system that irrigates rice much like other row crops — running water...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
Panda, a chocolate Labrador that calls the University of Arkansas’ Pine Tree Research Station home, has become somewhat of an unwitting social media celebrity. Although she doesn’t have her own Twitter account like Pedro, the...
• By Fred Miller •
Jewel, a new mid-season, long-grain rice variety from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, offers high yields and resistance to most known blast races.
In 14 Arkansas Rice Performance Trials conducted over three years,...
UArk’s ‘Most Crop Per Drop’ contest encourages growers to try water-saving technology with prizes.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
For the past two years, the University of Arkansas has prodded growers of rice, corn and soybeans to try new irrigation technologies...
Buried deep below the soil surface, groundwater may be out of sight. Increasingly, though, the natural resource is anything but out of mind.
Several efforts, both voluntary and regulatory, are ongoing to try to reduce groundwater overdraft and increase recharge....
Do you think you know how to irrigate and stretch your water supply? If so, enter the University of Arkansas' "Most Crop Per Drop" contest.
Unlike regular yield contests that simply look at how many bushels you can produce per...
• By Mary Hightower •
Arkansas agriculture and the state’s rural areas may face the potential for significant disruption in supply chain, labor and government services due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a multi-sector economic impact...
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