This Saturday, a special Black-bellied whistling duck season begins. It will run through October 11th. Wildlife and Fisheries Assistant Secretary Tommy Tuma says Louisiana is the first state to have a black bellied whistling duck season, and it’s because there is an overabundance of them.
“We’ve seen expansion of their population and range into south Louisiana, to the point where there are a lot of them early in the season,” Tuma said.
Read MoreThe Louisiana Rice Producers Group is pleased to join the American Sugar Cane League, LA Farm Bureau, and our partners in agriculture around the state, in thanking Governor Jeff Landry for his executive order declaring the emergency we are all faced with due to the shortage and high cost of diesel fuel, impacting our operations as we have never seen before in our industry.
Read MoreMore than 650 agribusiness professionals from 41 states and 13 countries attended the 2026 Women in Agribusiness Summit here last week and U.S. rice was proudly represented.
Read MoreIn South Louisiana, a field of rice may have a second life after the grain is harvested.
Months later, that same field can be filled with water, dotted with traps and producing another Louisiana staple: crawfish.
Read MoreUSA Rice hosted a delegation of eight South American importers and industry representatives here for a firsthand look at the U.S. rice industry. The delegates hailed from Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador.
The mission began with an industry dinner in Little Rock where USA Rice members discussed export possibilities, rice varieties, and characteristics preferred by South American consumers. The group then headed south for the remainder of the trip.
Read MoreIn Louisiana, 2026 has definitely been the year of the insect. Now this doesn’t mean we’ve had widespread yield losses and control failures, but instead we’ve seen insects do things we don’t normally expect. South American Rice Miner showed up pretty consistently in most fields and didn’t go away.
Read MoreLast week, USA Rice partnered with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) to celebrate U.S.-grown rice on campus during the Ragin’ Cajun Rice Festival. More than 700 students and faculty joined in the celebration of National Rice Month and the Louisiana rice industry.
Read MoreResidents are back home after a natural gas pipeline explosion west of Jennings prompted evacuations and road closures Friday morning.
Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Kyle Miers said the explosion happened around 8 a.m. near Farm Supply Road and U.S. 90.
Read MoreHarvest is gaining momentum across much of the country, but producers are entering the season with sharply different moisture conditions and substantially higher fuel costs.
Read MoreFor generations, agriculture has helped shape the economy, landscape and culture of Vermilion Parish. Rice fields, crawfish ponds and sugarcane farms stretch across the parish toward Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.
Now, another industry is preparing to put down roots alongside them.
Read MoreThis month’s 2026/27 U.S. corn outlook is for smaller supplies, lower domestic use, unchanged exports, and reduced ending stocks. Projected beginning stocks for 2026/27 are 23 million bushels lower based primarily on a larger export forecast for 2025/26. Corn production for 2026/27 is forecast at 15.8 billion bushels, 213 million down from last month on a 2.2-bushel reduction in yield to 178.5 bushels per acre and a fractional decrease in harvested area to 88.5 million.
Read MoreFarmers, conservation partners and LSU AgCenter researchers gathered for a field day focused on soil health, nitrogen management and watershed protection in rice‑growing areas of southwest Louisiana.
Read MoreThe U.S. rice industry is giving away $10,000 to high school seniors in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas as part of The Rice Foundation's annual National Rice Month Video Scholarship Contest. A Louisiana student hasn’t won the top grand prize since 2018 – and they are certainly due!
Read MoreThe Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation today announced the following prevailing world market prices of milled and rough rice, adjusted for U.S. milling yields and location, and the resulting marketing loan gain (MLG) and loan deficiency payment (LDP) rates applicable to the 2026 crop, which will become effective today at 7:00 a.m., Eastern Time (ET).
Read MoreUSA Rice's Sustainability Award, launched in 2018, is back this year to recognize the women and men who work to improve rice's sustainability every day, and applications are open now.
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