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Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter's Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.
For most, rice farming has been tough to sustain in 2025.
Economics plays a role in nearly every decision that rice producers make — from variety selection to growing methods to crop insurance enrollment.
Weed scientist Connor Webster and his research team conducted 75 rice weed management studies across LSU AgCenter research stations.
Two new varieties of the grain will be released in 2026 thanks to the breeding program at the LSU AgCenter’s H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
For nearly three decades, the Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program has enlisted production experts.
Rice growers in Louisiana face a persistent challenge, managing diseases that threaten crop health and yield.
Last year, farmers that got their rice planted early got rewarded with higher yields, which is a typical result most years.
For nearly a decade, LSU AgCenter entomologist Blake Wilson has been facing an uphill battle over stem borer and rice weevil infestation in rice crops
LSU AgCenter researchers are always trying to improve how rice farmers grow their crops.
Narrow brown leaf spot is caused by a fungal pathogen and so are two other diseases affecting rice.
For years, the LSU AgCenter has provided rice farmers and producers with recommendations on how to best manage their crop.
Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter's Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.
Research at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station is conducted by scientists with the LSU AgCenter's Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station.
The article highlights LSU AgCenter's research on developing effective and sustainable disease control practices for Louisiana rice producers.
This article discusses the Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program, which helps new and early career rice farmers improve yields and sustainability.
The article discusses LSU AgCenter researcher Jonathan Richards' work on studying the fungal pathogen Cercospora janseana and its two rice diseases.
LSU AgCenter researchers are investigating the sudden ineffectiveness of the seed treatment Dermacor X-100 in controlling stemborers in PVL03 rice.
The article highlights the LSU AgCenter's efforts to enhance the Louisiana rice industry's profitability and sustainability through innovative programs.
This article highlights the challenges and outcomes Louisiana rice farmers faced this year.
The Louisiana Rice Research Board emphasizes the growing importance of maintaining collective contributions to the rice checkoff system.
The article discusses LSU AgCenter researchers' efforts to reduce environmental impact and costs in rice production.
The article discusses the development of a new image-based platform by LSU AgCenter researchers to efficiently evaluate rice grain quality.
The article explains how LSU AgCenter researchers are using genomic selection to predict the best rice varieties for desirable traits.
LSU AgCenter weed scientist Connor Webster discusses his herbicide.
The article announces the LSU AgCenter's upcoming release of a new medium-grain rice variety, Venus.
The article highlights LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto's efforts to support rice growers using different tools.
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A herbicide offering the first new mode of action in more than three decades is being studied at LSU AgCenter research stations.
The unprecedented heat and drought conditions the state has experienced has made disease research a bit more challenging this year.
Growing rice in northeast Louisiana is primarily an economic decision for farmers in the area.
The Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program brings results from the research station to the farm.
The LSU AgCenter rice research program depend on a winter nursery at the University of Puerto Rico’s Lajas Experimental Station to create new varieties.
LSU AgCenter scientists stay on top of new insecticide options and insect threats, conducting studies to identify the best chemical control strategies.
Graduate students from Argentina, India and the Philippines are providing an invaluable service to the LSU AgCenter’s rice breeding program.
Dalla Lana’s research focuses on identifying what area is of most concern for the growers in Louisiana and working on management strategies.
The molecular breeding lab at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station in Crowley is at the forefront of creating successful rice varieties.
The LRRB continues to have great farmers stepping up to volunteer their time to represent the best this industry and Louisiana has to offer.
Analytics expert Roberto Fritsche-Neto brought his knowledge of qualitative genetics to the AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
Clearfield variety CLL19, a long-grain rice line in testing since 2018, has continued to check off a lot of important boxes.
This rice season was marked by unprecedented hot and dry conditions but started off cold with two late freezes that stopped planting.
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.
