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But Dr. Lee Tarpley, AgriLife Research plant physiologist, is studying what specifically affects rice plants under extreme environmental conditions.
The monsoon’s revival from mid-July has boosted India’s rice and soybean crops, curbing food price gains and easing concerns of shortages.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi.
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Wednesday that the 43,000 pound shipment of rice from Pakistan was infested with Khapra beetle larvae. Authorities say only dead larvae were found.
Louisiana is starting a program to honor farms, ranches and tree farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.
Nationwide, the total rice acreage averages around 2.8 million to 3 million, but that total could exceed 3 million this year.
Here are four things to keep in mind about armyworms, especially if you’re seeing damage but no worms.
If you plan to grow medium-grain rice in 2014, there are a few things to consider going into the year
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