By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 8.81 million acres this year, a reduction from last year of 7 percent and the lowest cotton acreage in 26 years. ...
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As Louisiana producers continue early-season planting, medium-grain rice varieties are in short supply. ...
The LSU AgCenter’s Rice Web Log and Rice Cam are back for 2009....
By Chris Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Questions linger, but rice remains the food staple of the world, with production expanding in reaction to high prices in 2008. Rice, a bellwether crop capable of measuring political climates, looks to seize opportunity in 2009....
By Whitney Ginn and Rick Cartwright
University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Department of Plant Pathology
Most Arkansas rice farmers agree — 2008 was a bad year for false smut. Hank Chaney, county agent in Prairie County, Ark., said, it “was the worst case of false smut I’ve had in years.” We received more calls about false smut in 2008 than any year since 1998, from county agents, growers and consultants across our state. False smut is a complex disease and confusion remains about its origin, nature, effects, and control....
By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC
Rice planting is near and it is time to figure out how we are going to do things from a weed control standpoint. I do not know what the percent of the acreage that will be planted to Clearfield rice, but it would seem to equate to whatever the seed supply was....
By Bob Cummings
Senior Vice President
USA Rice Federation
The confirmation of Ron Kirk as the new U.S. Trade Representative on March 18, 2009, is an opportunity for the Obama administration to refocus the U.S. trade agenda. ...
By Robert C. Scott
Extension Weed Specialist
University of Arkansas
In 2008 I had complaints about glyphosate drift on rice than I have had since starting with the Extension service back in 2002. ...
On March 19, the Arkansas State Plant Board announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had granted a crisis exemption for Cruiser as farmers battle grape colaspis. ...
By Bruce Schultz
LSU AgCenter
Gene Reagan, LSU AgCenter entomologist, has been doggedly studying the Mexican rice borer’s spread northward from the Rio Grande Valley for almost 30 years....
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