‘Cypress’ is a high yielding, early maturing, semidwarf long-grain rice variety with excellent grain quality. This bulletin includes information on the history, characteristics, cultural management and pest reaction of cypress.

Gibberellic acid (GA3) was the first naturally occurring plant growth regulator (PGR) labeled for use on rice in the U.S. GA3 is now profoundly influencing rice production in the southern United States. This bulletin describes the cultural and varietal problems related to emergence that needed to be addressed and provides the step by step approach leading to the use of GA3 as a seed treatment.

The results presented in this publication indicate that efforts to educate producers about nonpoint source pollution and recommended practices to minimize it can be effective in encouraging producers to adopt best management practices, whether those educational efforts are through dissemination of information at producer meetings or other outlets.

This report presents basis estimates for long grain rough rice in Southwest Louisiana for each of six marketing years from 1991-92 through 1996-97. The primary goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of basis movements in Southwest Louisiana, thereby increasing the likelihood that sound marketing decisions will be made by market participants.

This study was designed to examine the biological and economical efficacy of relaying crawfish into a growing rice crop in an intercropping manner.