July 2016 Rice Farming Update

July 2016

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In The News

* Expansion nears completion at Valent's Leland, Miss., research center - Read more

Valent U.S.A. has added 8,000 square feet of new research space to its Leland, Miss., Midsouth research center. The new greenhouse accounts for 2,400 square feet of that.

*LSU AgCenter offers glimpse of research at annual Crowley rice field day - Read more

* Texas A&M AgriLife researchers highlight work at Eagle Lake rice field day - Read more

* Mississippi releases 'Thad,' a new high-yielding high-amylose rice - Read more

* USA Rice seeks applicants for Rice Leadership Development Program - Read more

* Rice Farming editor nabs writing award - Read more

* MSU-Farm Bureau joint rice field day planned for July 19 - Read more

CPS's Express hybrid rice creates
buzz among growers and mills


	Photo courtesy Crop Production Services

For the past two years, breeders with Crop Production Services have quietly been working to develop rice hybrids with improved agronomic traits.

The first resulting commercial hybrid, named Express, is set for market introduction in time for the 2017 season, says Randy Ouzts, CPS U.S. rice manager. It will be marketed through CPS' Dyna-Gro business unit.

"We named it Express because in many instances emergence to harvest is only 90 days," he says. "We've been able to ratoon rice as far north as Jonesboro (Arkansas) because of how quickly it comes off, and we're hoping for some even farther north this season in our plots."

Several other Dyna-Gro hybrids and varieties are in the pipeline.

This season, Express is being trialed in more than 50 large-scale on-farm plots ranging from 20 to 60 acres this season, Altogether, CPS has about 2,500 acres of Express throughout the Mid-South rice belt as well as near Belle Glade, Fla. << Read more>>

Upcoming Events

July 6, 2016 - St. Landry Parish Rice and Soybean Field Day, Palmetto, La. Event details

July 13, 2016 - Northeast Louisiana Rice Field Day, Oak Ridge, La. Event details

July 14, 2016 - 69th Annual Beaumont Rice Field Day. Begins at 8 a.m. Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, 1509 Aggie Dr., Beaumont, Texas. Contact Dr. Ted Wilson at [email protected].

July 19, 2016 - Mississippi Field Day/Farm Bureau Grower Meeting, Delta Branch Experiment Station - Capps Center, Stoneville, Miss. Contact: Dr. Bobby Golden, (662) 769-0274, or [email protected] - Event details

July 19, 2016: University of Arkansas Rice and Corn IPM Meeting
Lonoke & Prairie County, 11 a.m., Advada's Diner, Carlisle, Ark. Dr. Gus Lorenz, Assoc. Dept. Head/Extension Entomology, and Mike Hamilton, Instructor, Irrigation Education. CCA credits available.

Aug. 3, 2016: Rice Tec Arkansas Field Day, 15329 Hwy 1, Harrisburg, Ark. Contact: Dr. Brian Ottis, (573) 391-0366, or [email protected]

Aug. 4, 2016: Horizon Ag Field Day, Arkansas. Registration at 9 a.m., followed by tour at 9:30, then lunch at Mark Wimpy's Farm in Jonesboro, Ark.

Aug. 9, 2016: Ribbon cutting ceremony for new Foundation Seed Processing Plant
University of Arkansas Rice Research and Extension Center, Stuttgart, Ark. Check back later for more information.

Aug. 10, 2016: Annual Arkansas Rice Expo, Grand Prairie Center, Stuttgart, Ark. - Event details

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If you have an event you want included in the calendar, please send it to Rice Farming editor Vicky Boyd at [email protected].

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Frank Carey of Valent U.S.A. shows Rice Farming Editor Vicky Boyd around the company's 8,000 square feet of new laboratory and greenhouse space at its Midsouth Agricultural Research Center near Leland, Miss.