Rice
A former USDA scientist has plead guilty to stealing seeds.
The rice crop in parts of Arkansas appear promising after August rain.
Nearly half of all rice produced in the U.S. is exported, so Mississippi farmers need rice variety options to ensure strong foreign demand for their harvests.
A severe drought that is threatening Asia’s top rice producers and drying up the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia has exerted only limited impact on prices, thanks to last year’s huge rice surplus, according to officials.
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.
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
Few broadleaf herbicides that exhibit soil residual activity are available for rice. Sharpen is a group 14 inhibiting herbicide and supplemental labeling will allow in-season applications to rice in 2014.
Nearly 70% of the U.S. rice crop is in good to excellent condition, about on par with the same time last year.
Higher-than-previously expected rice stocks results in a 5.0- million-cwt reduction in all rice 2012/13 domestic and residual use.
R&B farms, family owned and operated, not only produces rice to feed the world, but uses it to fuel advocacy for agriculture.
Maintains plan to cut corn stockpile and acreage in 2017.