Weed Control

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Wendell Minson Bootheel Crop Consultants Dexter, Missouri I received a B.S. degree in agricultural education from the University of Missouri. After obtaining a teaching certificate, I taught vocational agriculture for four years in Dexter, Missouri, before going to work...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Pat Roberts AGvice Crop Consulting McGehee, Arkansas I got involved with agriculture in high school working in the summers for a local farmer. After that, I wanted to be a farmer myself and was always on the lookout for...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Ross Wood, C.C.A. Stratton Seed Co. Stuttgart, Arkansas I grew up in Waldenburg, Arkansas, where my grandfather farmed rice, soybeans and wheat, and my parents owned and operated an agricultural flying service. Aviation was my passion with the goal...

Don’t fence me in Seed selection decisions start earlier every year, with many farmers making decisions by December. Even with some decisions made, there’s still a lot of time before the start of the season to fine-tune those selections and...

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Rogue SC Herbicide from Gowan Co. LLC for use on dry-seeded and water-seeded rice in the Mid-South and Texas. The product contains benzobicyclon, an HPPD inhibitor and a member of the Weed Science Society...

Research advancements in rice and soybeans, two of the top agricultural commodities in Arkansas, will be the focus of a virtual field day 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, presented by the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. The online...

The University of California Cooperative Extension will hold four educational grower sessions this fall, including one on rice weed management. The Oct. 11 rice weed session will be in a Zoom format from 3-4 p.m. PDT. If growers want to...

• By Fred Miller • The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture rice field day, originally scheduled as an in-person event on Aug. 6, will be presented online on Aug. 20. Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers and Cooperative Extension...

• By Vicky Boyd, Editor • Each year, University of Arkansas weed scientist Jason Norsworthy screens barnyardgrass seed samples sent in by growers and consultants who suspect the weed is resistant to one or more herbicides. This season will be no...

The new director of the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station recently joined the University of Wyoming’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Eric Webster began his duties July 6. He previously was director of the Louisiana State University AgCenter's Iberia Research...

• 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...

University of California Cooperative Extension will hold a weedy rice workshop from 9-11:30 a.m., Aug. 3, at its Sutter-Yuba Office, 142A Garden Highway, Yuba City, California. The meeting is free, but preregistration is required. This project is sponsored with funding...

After only being allowed to meet virtually last year, rice farmers will be able to put boots on the ground at this year’s rice field day, which will be held June 30 at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey...

• By Deborah Willenborg • At the opening of the Allen Parish Rice Growers Association annual meeting May 26 in Kinder, Louisiana, President Eric Savant, a local rice grower, welcomed everyone back in-person for the first time in more than...

This season started fast and a bit earlier than normal. Temperatures have also been relatively warm, meaning that rice planted early in the season was able to get well established, likely with vigorous early growth. Weeds will also respond...