Arkansas Agriculture

Red rice in the field was a problem for rice growers, but at least it was easy to spot. Years of out-crossing with cultivated rice varieties has now resulted in “weedy rice,” which easily blends in with the crop.

The increase in soybeans harvested after a cover crop is compared to a traditional winter fallow-and-till system, according to a three-year study.

Despite a lack of early planting in the Spring and other challenges, the state’s rice harvest is ending in a strong position.

The Arkansas Department of Agriculture is promoting agricultural burning as a valuable tool for row crop farmers.

A monster that lives by eating the dead is hiding underground, and it has developed a taste for soybeans.For the past two years, Arkansas Agricultural…

Hurricane Ida decimated the Louisiana coast Sunday before turning its wrath on the city of New Orleans, destroying property and leaving more than one…

The COVID-19 pandemic created a spike in global rice prices in the second quarter of 2020, according to a new University of Arkansas System Division of…

Corn and soybean prices have been in the doldrums for nearly half a decade, but in early 2021 that changed. Prices surged and it created a shift in row…

Each year plant bugs, a perennial pest of Arkansas cotton, spend June and early July consuming the silk of corn while it’s still green. As seed is set on…

Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event…