As soon as we arrived in San José, Costa Rica, we were met by Roberto Camacho, a Costa Rican native, who had studied rice production with Dr. Steve Linscombe at Louisiana State University. Roberto would be our guide and translator throughout the trip.
Read MoreSoil scientists spent nearly 18 years studying the impacts of field crop burning. The practice is utilized by grain farmers in the Arkansas Delta to clear fields of plant refuse, kill weeds and other pests, and prepare the seedbed for next year’s planting.
Read MoreThis month’s 2022/23 U.S. corn outlook is for higher production, larger feed and residual use, and greater ending stocks. Corn production is forecast at 13.930 billion bushels, up 35 million from last month on a 0.4-bushel increase in yield to 172.3 bushels per acre. Feed and residual use is higher based on a larger crop. With supply rising more than use, corn ending stocks are raised 10 million bushels.
Read MoreRecently, ag retailers from the Coastal rice production region packed the Acadia Parish Extension Office auditorium in Crowley, Louisiana, to hear the Provisia Working Group’s recommendations for best management practices (BMPs) for limiting the development of weedy rice outcrosses to the ACCase-inhibiting herbicide technology.
Read MoreFirefighters responded to an explosion at a grain elevator on La. 397 at the Farmers Rice Milling Company.
Robert LeDoux was sitting in his truck waiting to unload when the explosion happened. His dashcam captured the explosion.
Read MoreTo celebrate National Louisiana Day on November 9, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is highlighting the innovative NIFA-funded research conducted by the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter).
Read MoreEpisode 57 of the award-winning The Rice Stuff podcast takes listeners behind the scenes to the largest and oldest agriculture festival in Louisiana, the 85th International Rice Festival.
Podcast co-host and USA Rice vice president of communications and domestic promotion, Michael Klein was once again in Crowley, Louisiana, for the celebration of all things rice with colleagues Kane Webb and Deborah Willenborg, and he shares a festival report with co-host Lesley Dixon.
Read MoreOver the past week, USA Rice joined hundreds of other agriculture and business-focused organizations urging the Biden Administration and Congress to step in and find a resolution to avoid a potential rail labor strike or lockout.
Read MoreFollowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement of the Market Year Average (MYA) prices for southern long and medium/short grain rice, USA Rice has released an updated Price Loss Coverage (PLC) payment calculator for the 2021 rice crop. This USA Rice-developed tool helps project potential rice PLC payments.
Read MoreDespite the many challenges of 2022, the October USDA production forecasts released during harvest did not paint the grim picture many were dreading. For the Midsouth area, average yields of major row crops were down, as most would expect.
Read MoreThe 26th Annual National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference, the Southern Soybean & Corn Conference, the Delta States Irrigation Conference and the Southern Precision Ag Conference are headed to Baton Rouge, LA. The conferences are sponsored by Cotton Incorporated and US Rice Producers Association.
Read MoreLouisiana-based JT Meleck Distillers has launched the ‘first’ commercially available American whiskey to be made 100% from rice.
Read MoreThis past weekend, avid birders and ornithologists from across the country and across “the pond” descended on southwest Louisiana for the 14th Annual Yellow Rails and Rice Festival. Participants from 29 states and the United Kingdom took to the rice fields near here for the chance to catch a glimpse of the elusive Yellow Rail.
Read MoreWhile just about everyone in South Louisiana knows that every Monday is red beans & rice day, Oct. 24 will now be recognized as the “official” day for the dish by the State of Louisiana.
Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a proclamation Monday (Oct. 24) morning on the steps of the State Capitol to officially recognize the day.
Read MoreA lot goes into putting on the Rice Festival and it all begins with the rice industry.
The life of the rice starts with the life of the farmer and as farmer Paul Zaunbrecher told News 10 that “it’s got to be something you love.”
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