Louisiana Rice: Start Scouting Fields For Diseases
With rice fields finally growing and fields at permanent flood, rice farmers need to be on the lookout for diseases. There are many critical areas in rice production and disease management happens to be the one that farmers face at this point in the season.
Whether it is sheath blight, blast, smuts, or cercospora, scouting needs to start now to ensure that the rice fields stay healthy and yields can be maximized. It is also important to know what diseases the rice variety is susceptible to.
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LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station 'In Person' Field Day
The H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station invites everyone to their annual field day on Wednesday, June 30. Field tours will begin at 7:15 am with the last tour departing no later than 9:00 am. Tour stops will cover new rice varieties, weed, insect, and disease control, hybrid rice development, and agronomic practices. An extensive group of organizations and individuals will present information at the scientific poster session and trade show from 7:15 am to 10:15 am. The indoor program will begin at 10:30 am and update guests on an array of rice related topics. Lunch will be served after the program.
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Row Rice On 'The Rice Stuff' Podcast
Access to water and water use are among the most important aspects of rice farming. It can be one of the most costly inputs, and it can also be highly controversial and political. Water efficiency is vital for farmers’ bottom lines, the planet, and the rice industry’s social license to operate. Row Rice on The Rice Stuff Podcast.
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Rice Field Days Back On Track And In-Person In Louisiana
At the opening of the Allen Parish Rice Growers Association annual meeting last Wednesday in Kinder, President Eric Savant, a local rice grower, welcomed everyone back in-person for the first time in more than a year. “I don’t know if things will ever get back to ‘normal’, but it’s time to get together and connect with our fellow growers, discuss the business of our organizations, and catch up on the current issues in our industry,” Savant said.
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Different Diseases Require Different Fungicide Timings
With rice fields finally growing and fields at permanent flood, rice farmers need to be on the lookout for diseases. There are many critical areas in rice production and disease management happens to be the one that farmers face at this point in the season. Whether it is sheath blight, blast, smuts or Cercospora, scouting needs to start now to ensure that the rice fields stay healthy and yields can be maximized. It is also important to know what diseases the rice variety is susceptible to.
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Biden Administration Commits To Resolving EU Retaliatory Tariffs, Including Rice
Yesterday, President Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced with their European counterpart, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, that they are officially working towards an agreement to repeal the Section 232 tariffs on U.S. and European products.
The announcement comes just weeks before the three-year anniversary of the tariffs being imposed.
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International Rice Festival Returns To Crowley This Fall
The 84th International Rice Festival will return to Crowley this fall after being canceled last year due to the COVID-`19 pandemic.
The festival will return to Downtown Crowley Oct. 14-17, 2021.
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Columbian Farmers Get Rice Advice From Dr. Steve Linscombe
USA Rice has a long-standing trade relationship with the National Federation of Rice Producers in Colombia (FEDEARROZ), an organization representing Colombian rice farmers that provides technological advice, seeds, and agrochemicals to their thousands of members.
Recently, however, FEDEARROZ tapped the relationship with USA Rice for a different purpose, namely, to gather information on rice research to assist their organization in developing recommendations for future rice production in Colombia
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Port of Lake Charles Ships Rice to Conflict-Ridden Areas of Africa
The port of Lake Charles is moving Louisiana rice to help feed areas of Central Africa that are in need.
Crews at the port have been packing bags of rice, weighing 110 pounds each, into the Tao Star cargo ship that will sail across the Atlantic to help some of the African countries facing conflict. More than 19,000 tons of rice are being shipped to Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic and Cameroon.
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WADE Rice: Reduced Domestic Use, Exports, Stocks
The initial 2021/22 outlook for U.S. rice is for reduced supplies, exports, domestic use, and ending stocks. Total 2021/22 supplies are projected at 285.0 million cwt, down 2 percent from last year on lower production more than offsetting higher imports and significantly greater beginning stocks.
All rice production is projected at 203.6 million cwt, down 11 percent from the previous year on reduced harvested area. The 2021/22 projected all rice yield is 7,651 pounds per acre, up 32 pounds from last year.
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Letlow Calls on U.S. Trade Representative and Acting U.S. Ambassador to the UK to Help Protect U.S. Rice Exports
Congresswoman Julia Letlow (LA-05) today called on U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Yael Lempert to work diligently to prevent the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy by the UK, as the European Union did earlier this year, for the detection of Propiconazole in imported foods.
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A New Route To Hardier Rice: Tweak Its Microbiome
The next wave of innovations in crop science may come not from cross-breeding plants or reprogramming their genes but by tweaking the microbes that live in, on and around them.
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One Grain Is Keeping The World's Food Crisis From Getting Worse
As skyrocketing crop prices fuel fears about soaring food costs and hunger around the globe, one of the world’s most consumed staples is bucking the trend and warding off a broader food crisis at least for now.
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Invention Of Low Glycemic Rice: New Tool To Curb Obesity & Diabetes Should Hit Markets In '21
Diabetes is a worldwide problem affecting more than 463 million people (9.3% of world population). In the United States alone, more than 34.2 million people have diabetes (10.5% of the U.S. population), and 88 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (34.5% of the adult U.S. population). Worldwide, diabetes prevalence is estimated to rise to 10.2% (578 million) by 2030 and 10.9% (700 million) by 2045. Diabetes is among the top 10 causes of death in adults and has caused 4.2 million deaths globally. The key to curbing diabetes emphasizes prevention through dietary and nutrition management with the goal of maintaining stable and safe levels of postprandial blood glucose concentration. The availability of low glycemic rice can support this dietary management approach by minimizing spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels.
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Congressman Clay Higgins Talks Shop in Louisiana’s 3rd District
Congressman Clay Higgins, who represents Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District, spent time yesterday meeting with local rice and crawfish producers to discuss various issues facing the two industries.
Rep. Higgins’ first stop was at the Bieber Farm near Mamou. The main topic of conversation with the group there was labor concerns, specifically the H2A & H2B programs.
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