By: Dr. M.O. Way, Prof. of Entomology, Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Ctr. Well, the Texas Rice Belt survived Hurricane Hannah, but rain from the storm came at an inopportune time. Texas rice farmers are in the middle of cutting their crop, so now many fields are muddy, but farmers Read more…
The House is currently considering the FY 2020 Agriculture Appropriations bill as part of a four-bill, $259.5 billion spending package that includes Agriculture-FDA, Interior-Environment, Military Construction-VA, and State-Foreign Operations. On Wednesday, the House Rules Committee approved 132 amendments for debate. The Agriculture Appropriations bill funds important food and agriculture programs Read more…
By: Dr. M.O. Way, Prof. of Entomology, Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Ctr. For this article, I want to talk about the South American rice miner, Hydrellia wirthi, which I observed last week infesting fields of Cheniere and XL753 near Nome, TX. This species is exotic and originated in its Read more…
This week Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden released a document entitled THE BIDEN PLAN TO BUILD A MODERN, SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AND AN EQUITABLE CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE which includes many of his various agriculture and rural development-related policies. The document, which may be accessed here, is based on policies developed by Read more…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – With the approach of its 20-year anniversary of offering Clearfield® pure-line varieties to Southern rice farmers, Horizon Ag is excited to announce that two new top-performing Clearfield varieties from the University of Arkansas will be broadly available in its lineup for 2020. “The University of Arkansas has Read more…
The rice industry continues to be very slow even with harvest pending as the market has yet to generate any “new” news upon which to move. The export sales report for the week was slightly improved over the previous report by about 1,000 MT but as has been mentioned before, it Read more…
The naming of Senate farm bill conferees was left undone this week. Negotiations over numbers and naming of conferees, in addition to farm policy issues not contained in the current farm bills under consideration, were rumored to be in active discussions. The Senate left Thursday with these issues unresolved but Read more…
2018 will be a year to remember. In the rice market we have always said there are no two years alike and certainly there are specific years when something special happened that make them stand out. The first one that comes to mind is 2008 when the market thought the Read more…
This week U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a $12 billion plan to support farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs imposed by U.S. trading partners. In acknowledgment of the disproportionate effect on U.S. farmers of trade retaliation, President Trump directed Secretary Perdue to implement a plan to protect U.S. farmers Read more…
Dwight Roberts, President & CEO of the US Rice Producers Association and in representation of its charter member, the Texas Rice Council, gave testimony earlier this week at a public hearing at the State Capitol on Texas House Concurrent Resolution 33 calling on the U.S. Congress to end the Cuba Read more…