USA – Turning dry milk and rice husks into homes
Engineering students win awards at international competition for creating less costly, more environmentally friendly and termite resistant alternative to particleboard.
USA – Rice Field day attacts over 400 people to discuss future of the rice industry
Over 400 people gathered at the LSU AG Center Rice Research Station on Wednesday to discuss the future of the rice industry.
USA – U.S. rice growers want to get in on Cuba
Source: Market Place 02/07/2015 – The U.S. will open an embassy in Havana — so said President Barack Obama Tuesday, a significant step showing that efforts to normalize relations with Cuba are ticking along. However, the embargo still stands, and only Congress can lift it. Should that happen, many U.S. exporters will stand to benefit, including…
USA – Louisiana still has potential for a good rice crop
Source: The New Star 18/06/2015 – Unusually excessive rainfall and cloudy days have been a challenge for growing rice, but it’s too early to become pessimistic about this year’s crop, according to the director of the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station. “We’ve still got the potential for a good crop,” said Steve Linscombe, also a…
U.S.A – Sacramento Valley rice farmers say they will grow less due to drought
They stressed that the impact of water cutbacks in the case of rice will be more than economic.
California – Rice planting proceeds as water availability varies
Rice planting is nearing its halfway point in California’s middle Sacramento Valley. Crop advisers are expecting more fields to be fallowed this year because of a lack of water, although how much more acreage is idled remains to be seen.
USA – $5.5M NSF grant aims to improve rice crops with genome editing
Scientists are also in a race against time to double the production of cereal crops on limited arable land by 2050, when the global population could reach 9.5 billion.
Rice can ‘borrow’ stronger immunity from other plant species, study shows
The study findings, which may help increase health and productivity of rice, the staple food for half of the world’s population, are reported online in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
USA – New tools continue to provide U.S. rice farmers with an edge
U.S. rice producers may get their first look at Provisia Rice, a new technology that should help provide postemergence control of a broad range of grass weeds, including ALS-resistant grasses, weedy rice and red rice, in 2016.
USA – Options for better control of resistant weeds in rice
Crop and trait rotation options available in Arkansas can make resistance management relatively easy if farmers will get outside our normal thinking somewhat and be proactive.