Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service hosted their 75th annual Rice Field Day on July 13 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Beaumont. This year’s theme was "Innovations in Texas Rice Irrigation".

The program included morning and afternoon tours , reseach displays and in the general program; AgriLife Research: Developing Solutions Today for Agricultural Challenges in the Future – G. Cliff Lamb, Ph.D., director of AgriLife Research, Bryan-College Station; Maximizing Water Management through Farm Design – Ryan Frey, irrigation specialist, Smart Acre Solutions LLC., Ferriday, Louisiana; Irrigation Conservation Practices Used by Mid-South Rice Producers – Joe Massey, Ph.D., U.S. Department of Agriculture – Agriculture Research Service research agronomist, Jonesboro, Arkansas.

USRPA President and CEO, Marcela Garcia, staff members Iris Figueroa, Trey Barker, and USRPA Stoesser Scholar Gayla Rose represented USRPA at the event.

Lina Bernaola, Ph.D., assistant professor in theTexas A&M AgriLife Research Department of Entomology

Assistant professors in the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Department, Shyamal K. Talukder, Ph.D., and Lee Tarpley, PhD., on Physiology & Inbreed Breeding

Xin-Gen (Shane) Zhou, PhD., assistant professor in the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Department on Pathology.