by - March 27, 2024 9:38 am
High school juniors graduating in 2025 are eligible to apply for and win up to $17,500 in scholarship funding towards higher education. Arkansas Rice’s “Rice Reps” is a five-month program…
by - January 16, 2024 10:45 am
The Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board is accepting grant proposals for rice research and promotion through January 25. A funding goal of $2.8 million for research proposals has been…
by - November 19, 2023 10:01 am
About 2.3 billion, or nearly 30%, of the world’s population doesn’t get enough to eat, according to the World Health Organization. Rice is by far the most consumed food in…
by - September 20, 2023 4:21 pm
The Arkansas rice industry donated 240,000 pounds of rice to the Arkansas Foodbank in honor of National Rice Month on Wednesday (Sept. 20). The donation from ten mills will provide…
by - September 6, 2023 7:53 pm
Arkansas rice farmers are well ahead of the average harvest schedule for the state and record yields are possible this season. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural…
by - August 14, 2023 11:35 am
Recent perpetual rains may have a significant impact on Arkansas rice as the crop inches closer to harvest. Northeast Arkansas farmers have been checking their fields for losses after storms…
by - August 2, 2023 12:38 pm
A ban on white, non-basmati rice exports by India could bolster prices for American rice farmers, said Alvaro Durand-Morat, associate professor and agricultural economist for the University of Arkansas System…
by - July 19, 2023 11:52 am
Perpetual rains this summer have kept the Arkansas Delta away from the drought conditions that plagued farmers last year. The extra moisture does cause some other problems, however. Specialists with…
by - July 10, 2023 1:41 pm
Despite myriad forces facing rice farmers in 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) now projects that about 1.311 million acres of the crop have been…
by - May 10, 2023 10:07 am
A groundbreaking was held Tuesday (May 9) for a new land-grant research and extension center near Harrisburg in Poinsett County to serve the needs of rice growers in Northeast Arkansas….
by - May 1, 2023 1:07 pm
Arkansas is the nation’s top rice producer and during the last several growing cycles planting has started slowly. This has been due to the unusual weather and heavy rains that…
by - March 6, 2023 2:09 pm
When German brewers such as Adolphus Busch immigrated to the United States they faced a unique problem. Many of the hearty, protein-filled barleys grown in their new country were difficult…
by - March 2, 2023 8:51 am
Rice acres and yields were down across the board during the 2022 growing season. Farmers had to battle wild weather fluctuations, disease and skyrocketing input costs. But federal aid is on…
by - January 18, 2023 11:36 am
The Arkansas Rice Farmers and Arkansas Rice Council will hold their annual meeting on January 26 in Stuttgart at the newly renovated Grand Prairie Center. USA Rice CEO Betsy Ward…
by - October 18, 2022 7:09 am
Many scientists think that rice blast, a fungus that damages rice plants, is the biggest threat to rice crops worldwide. First identified in California in 1996, the fungus causes damage…
by - October 1, 2022 5:37 am
The Arkansas rice industry donated 214,900 pounds of rice to the Arkansas Foodbank on Thursday (Sept. 29) in honor of National Rice Month. The donation from seven mills will provide…
by - July 14, 2022 10:53 am
A rice production field day will be held Wednesday (July 20) and will be co-hosted by the Arkansas Discovery Farm Program and Anheuser-Busch. It will highlight water and nutrient efficiency,…
by - May 2, 2022 7:26 pm
Three major crops in Arkansas – rice, soybeans, and corn – are behind planting schedules after heavy rains soaked agriculture fields repeatedly in April, according to Jarrod Hardke, extension rice…
by - March 17, 2022 4:56 pm
One major problem farmers have battled for years is the lack of water. It’s becoming harder and harder to find water for irrigation as the climate changes and the demand…
by - December 27, 2021 12:20 pm
As rice was removed from Arkansas fields it was churning out 169 bushels per acre in the fall of 2021 which would be a state record. But, once it’s milled…
