Lower Colorado River Authority trying innovative approach to addressing need for increased irrigation water for rice producers....More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted the Section 18 label for the new BASF product called Sercadis on a maximum of 40,000 acres of rice in Louisiana. The approval had been requested by the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry to address a strain of sheath blight disease resistant to the fungicides that had been used....More

U.S. rice mills shipped nearly 12 billion pounds of rice to domestic and international markets from August 2010 to July 2011 — an 8 percent increase over 2009-10....More

Barnyardgrass resistant to Newpath was confirmed in Sunflower County, Miss., in 2010. Two additional Newpath-resistant populations were identified in Bolivar and Washington counties in 2011. The problem would likely have been more widespread last year, but Mississippi rice acres decreased by 48 percent from 2010 to 2011 and are forecasted to decline by another significant percentage in 2012....More