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Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Crowley, LA, is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter's Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Rice varieties can be targeted to enhance specific grain qualities that give the variety potential marketability for a certain population or geographic region.
LSU AgCenter Professor Emeritus James Oard, left, was honored for his decades of leading the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station’s Rice Pathology Project.
The LSU AgCenter molecular breeding lab focuses on integrating DNA marker technologies into the applied variety development program.
The same favorable conditions that helped rice thrive also provided great conditions for yield-robbing weeds to propagate in the 2022 growing season.
For Louisiana rice producers, the 2022 growing season offered two narratives for disease in rice fields.
The LSU AgCenter Rice Verification Program helped guide a handful of south Louisiana growers through the 2022 rice season.
Farmers in southwest Louisiana have been growing rice for a long time, but in row crop-dominated northeast Louisiana, rice remains a relative newcomer.
A researcher with a decade of agronomy experience in both the Philippines and the U.S. has joined the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
The H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station's breeding objectives have fueled the development of varieties that help the viability of the entire rice industry.
LSU AgCenter researchers test rice in locations across the state to compare yield differences and to quantify disease pressure.
Several insects can negatively affect a rice farmer’s fields, but none are as detrimental to Louisiana rice as the rice water weevil.
Rice prices have risen as American rice acreage has dropped, but growers are facing higher production costs, said LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto.
As we reflect on 2022, it depends on who you ask and how you define this past year’s rice season.
Rice farmers saw consistent, near-daily rainfall that hampered their operations.
The H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station breeding program’s variety developments have evolved to focus on specific rice characteristics.
Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Crowley, LA, is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
LSU AgCenter researchers continue to study the benefits and challenges posed by the alternative rice growing method of planting rice on furrow-irrigated rows.
The LSU AgCenter offers best management practices for producing rice, which includes studying agronomic recommendations of varieties released by rice breeders.
Weed scientists with the LSU AgCenter are focusing on a pair of herbicides as promising products to control broadleaf weeds and sedge in rice fields.
Economists in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness help provide tools that producers can use to make sound financial decisions.
An LSU AgCenter geneticist is focused on a new generation of long-grain hybrids for his research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
While the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico may be known for its beaches, rum and colonial charisma, few may know of its value to the Louisiana rice industry.
The LSU AgCenter is working to help rice farmers grow their crops more efficiently using large datasets collected on the ground and from satellites.
LSU AgCenter plant pathologist Jonathan Richards is studying ways to control narrow brown leaf spot, a disease that has become more widespread in Louisiana.
The LSU AgCenter Rice Verification Program continues to serve as a conduit for research data from test plots to producers’ fields across the state.
The Louisiana Rice Research Board is establishing a new endowed chair specifically for the LSU AgCenter’s rice breeding program at the Rice Research Station.
Over the past two rice-growing seasons, the LSU AgCenter has begun to research diseases common to both flooded and upland rice.
With the volume of rainfall Louisiana has received over the course of 2021, rice producers may be forgiven if irrigation practices aren’t top of mind.
A late-February freeze and a rain-delayed planting season — the crop year yielded decent results across the state.
The 2021 growing season has seen a variety of challenges and successes. Each year we are faced with a variety of obstacles, and this past year was no exception.
While Clearfield variety development had been a major focus of the LSU AgCenter rice breeding program over the past 15 years, for the last three to four years t
Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station, Crowley, LA, is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Four fields were enrolled in the LSU AgCenter Rice Verification Program in 2020.
Overall, the 2020 rice crop was better than 2019, but for many farmers it was a difficult year.
Research for insect pests of rice continued in 2020 with the addition of a project to study an emerging pest for row rice.
Row rice continues to gain in popularity in north Louisiana, where farmers are taking advantage of the growing technique’s flexibility.
Research focusing on the Provisia technology was a major part of the work by LSU AgCenter weed scientist Eric Webster in 2020.
“You can’t talk about the marketing year and not talk about trade and COVID,” said Michael Deliberto, LSU AgCenter economist.
Four new hybrid combinations developed at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station showed highly promising results in 2020.
Trey Price, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist, is working at the AgCenter Macon Ridge Research Station on rice diseases in north Louisiana and how to manage them.
Jonathan Richards, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist, is studying narrow brown leaf spot disease, which is also called Cercospora leaf spot.
Brent Theunissen is the new farm manager at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
The breeding program at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station is developing rice tailored for Latin American palates.
The 2020 Louisiana rice crop suffered less disease than the previous year, said Don Groth, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist.
A major part of the work by Dustin Harrell is to evaluate nitrogen fertilizer rates and timing for new lines that could potentially become varieties.
Dustin Harrell is the resident coordinator of the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station on Feb. 1, 2021, replacing Don Groth.
Those in the business of growing and marketing rice will be rewarded for their perseverance and tenacity with new rice varieties and improved ways of growing.
The latest version of Provisia, PVL03, is being grown in a seed increase in south Texas. The goal is that it will be available in 2021.
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The U.S. rice market has improved because of decreased production that boosted prices, economists say.
LSU AgCenter entomologists are working to defend rice crops from insects both before and after harvest.
An ongoing research project has the potential to dramatically accelerate the breeding program at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
See the recent progress.
The Louisiana Rice Research Board provided an additional $500,000 earmarked for a research chair.
The LSU AgCenter Rice Verification Program helps farmers learn the finer points of growing rice.
Eric Webster, LSU AgCenter weed scientist, said he tested treating granular fertilizer with Loyant herbicide.
Farmers should have a new fungicide in 2020 or 2021.
LSU graduate student Anna Coker has been working with drones to analyze plots of various rice varieties to determine midseason nitrogen needs.
Research into hybrid rice at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station is progressing, with two hybrids, LAH169 and CLH161, showing promise.
Discovery of a rice gene linked to resistance to Cercospora disease has helped in the development of new rice varieties.
A bait to kill wild pigs is progressing, said Glen Gentry, LSU AgCenter feral swine specialist.
Two LSU AgCenter extension agents experimented with applying fertilizer in poly pipe while irrigating row rice in 2019.
A unique rice variety developed by AgCenter researchers Herry Utomo and Ida Wenefrida was grown in 2019: Frontiere.
See the locations for trials in Louisiana.
Breakdown of numbers for 2019 crop.
Luciano Shiratsuchi is working on a project that will help farmers use satellite imagery to better their crops.
Storms, excessive heat and humidity and high levels of disease all resulted in low yields, low milling and quality problems for this year's crops.
Rice farmers have endured many hurdles. For most, the 2019 crop was one of the most difficult. However, we continue to improve.
A new Provisia line has been approved as variety PVL02.
Gov. John Bel Edwards appointed eight new members to the 15-member board.
Breeders at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station work continuously to develop new varieties and hybrids.
Continuing and new projects.
Anne Idsal, regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visited the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in March 2018.
The agronomy project under Dustin Harrell is an all-encompassing series of studies aimed at improving production efficiency and increasing yields.
For the first time a researcher tested a field-scale rice seed treatment of jasmonic acid for its potential to impart resistance against insect pests.
LSU AgCenter researcher Manoch Kongchum is studying nitrogen-use efficiency and yield for rice grown under three different irrigation protocols.
Ongoing improvements at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station are aimed at modernizing the facility and maintaining its global prominence.
For her doctoral dissertation, Lina Bernaola has been studying whether arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can help rice plants with improved rice growth.
A high-protein rice variety developed by LSU AgCenter rice researcher Ida Wenefrida is being grown for commercial production in southern Illinois.
LSU AgCenter researchers are developing best management practices for growing row rice in north Louisiana.
Insect research under Blake Wilson, an LSU AgCenter entomologist, continued in 2018 with several ongoing projects.
In 2018, farmers grew Provisia rice commercially for the first time, and the reaction to the technology’s weed-control capability was positive.
The winter nursery in Puerto Rico continues to help save time in the development of new rice options for farmers, researchers say.
Amistar Top, a new fungicide, made its debut in 2018 with mixed reviews.
Genetic marker technology is leading to a more efficient process for developing new varieties.
