Diversify field to slow rice diseases 

Jul 22, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

By drastically narrowing diversity in fields, agriculture has largely created its own disease problems....

Much of Arkansas rice well behind normal 

Jul 21, 2008,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

My telephone load normally begins to wind down about the middle of July. ...

New rice varieties/lines developed 

Jul 18, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Promising new rice varieties are being developed and scrutinized at the LSU Rice Research Station in Crowley, La. Catahoula, an early semi-dwarf long-grain “has very good yield potential,” said Steve Linscombe, LSU AgCenter rice breeder and station manager, at the recent field day in Crowley....

Warshaw new USA Rice Federation board chairman 

Jul 18, 2008

The USA Rice Federation board of directors has elected James W. (Jamie) Warshaw to be its next chairman....

USA Rice Federation board honors Al Montna 

Jul 18, 2008

Al Montna, USA Rice Federation board chairman, was presented with a plaque in recognition of his dedicated service throughout his two-year term as board chairman. ...

Rice just starting near the finish line 

Jul 16, 2008,

By Ford L. Baldwin
Practical Weed Consultants, LLC.

I usually look back at old articles this time of year and see what I have written about in the past. ...

USDA trims cotton by 500,000 bales 

Jul 16, 2008,

By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA is projecting smaller crops for U.S. cotton, corn and soybeans, and larger production for rice in its July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....

NRCS chief to outline 2008 conservation programs 

Jul 11, 2008

Arlen Lancaster, USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service chief, will address the USA Rice Producers’ Group Conservation Committee Saturday, July 12, during a committee meeting in Dallas....

Cyclone damaged rice acreage in Myanmar 

Jul 10, 2008

GIS maps and flood classification data show that the areas of Myanmar originally inundated by Cyclone Nargia on May 2 account for approximately 1.7 million hectares of rice, 24 percent of the national rice area, or roughly 2.5 million tons of rice production on a milled basis....

Genomics research focuses on rice variety improvement 

Jul 9, 2008

Crop varieties can be improved through the study of genomics without creating genetically transformed varieties....

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