2024 Rice Field Day updates producers on latest research, rice breeding (2024)

Aug. 9, 2024

By John Lovett
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

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  • Arkansas rice farmers get early start on 2024 crop, harvest underway
  • Keith Glover announced as chairman of USA Rice
  • Rice breeders provide update on improvements

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STUTTGART, Ark. —More than 350 people attended the 2024 Rice Field Day at the Rice Research and Extension Center on Aug. 1 to hear research updates on rice breeding, precision agriculture and weed control.

Arkansas remains the nation’s top rice producer, with over 1.4 million acres of rice this year. The annual Rice Field Day gives researchers and extension specialists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture an opportunity to share the latest information with the rice industry. These rice experts presented updated management recommendations and highlighted research projects supported by Arkansas rice growers through the Arkansas Rice Research and Promotion Board’s Rice Check-off Program.

The day commenced with field tours and concluded with remarks by leaders in the industry. Keith Glover, president and CEO of Producers Rice Mill in Stuttgart, announced that USA Rice, the national trade association, had elected him as chairman.

“Today is my first day of a two-year term as chairman of USA Rice,” Glover said on Aug. 1. “Just like you have all of these wonderful people working on your behalf every day on the research side, you have the same activities taking place on the marketing and promotion side through USA Rice.”

Quoting the most recent export update, Glover said U.S. rough rice sales and exports for long grain were up 152 percent this year. On the milled rice side, the biggest markets for rice grown in Arkansas and the Mid-South are in Iraq and Haiti, Glover noted.

Glover also said he is excited to see how the market responds to the two latest rice releases from the Division of Agriculture’s rice breeding program: Ozark, a short-season, conventional long-grain, and Taurus, a very short-season, semi-dwarf conventional medium-grain.

“Check-off is the money that people like you, the farmers, and others who make the contribution, goes to do research,” said Alton Johnson, director of the Rice Research and Extension Center. “Thirty-five new rice varieties, drone research, AI, and all of these different things we do are supported by the check-off dollars. Without that and the contribution it makes, Arkansas would not be the top rice-producing state in the country.”

Johnson added that the United States ranks 13th in rice production worldwide and sixth in rice exports.

The 2024 field day was co-hosted by the Division of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, which operates the neighboring Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center. Shannon Pinson, a research geneticist for USDA-ARS, commented on the high interest level shown by attendees.

“The field day attendees were full of interest and questions.They were clearly here to gain the knowledge your group has to offer,” she said. “That says a lot about the reputation the Rice Research and Extension Center has for conducting quality research.”

2024 rice crop review

This year, favorable conditions for early planting have led to rice harvest already beginning in some parts of the state. “July rice” in Arkansas is a first since 2012, said Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the Division of Agriculture. Most of Arkansas’ rice country is on the cusp of harvest season.

“Generally speaking, we had a very rapid start this year, not just for rice but for all crops, and it was really shocking how early in April that comments were coming in saying ‘We’re done,’” Hardke said. “So, we knew we were off to a good start this year.”

Winds and frequent, intermittent rainfall led to issues with applying herbicides and fertilizers during the season’s first six weeks. Despite the challenges and inefficiencies created by the weather, Hardke said the state’s rice crop “overall looks very good.”

Rice breeding update

Xueyan Sha, senior rice breeder and professor of plant rice and genetics, joined Christian De Guzman, assistant professor of rice breeding and genetics, to share the latest updates from the Rice Breeding Program operated through the Division of Agriculture’s research arm, the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Long-grain, medium-grain, and short-grain varieties are developed in the program, some in collaboration with private companies and the Louisiana State University AgCenter.

Sha said the recently released new long-grain variety Ozark offers better yields, milling, and grain quality, and helped alleviate the seed shortage issue faced by Arkansas rice growers earlier this year. The Rice Breeding Program has a number of potential new long-grain experimentals in the pipeline with earlier maturity and improved characteristics sought by grain mills, such as a larger but more slender grain. He also noted the new medium-grain, Taurus, provides significant yield advantages to Titan and Jupiter.

Disease resistance, straw strength, grain chalk,milling quality, and yield potential are other characteristics sought by rice breeders. De Guzman noted they continue to work on aromatic varieties like the jasmine-type ARoma 22 and other niche varieties with high amylose content, and “waxy” or “sticky” rice.

“ARoma 22 is a very good quality aromatic rice, and we have some potential lines which are also conventional and aromatic and yield as much as Diamond, that we are looking forward to possibly releasing,” De Guzman said.

The rice breeders recognized support from the Rice Check-off Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website:https://aaes.uada.edu. Follow on Twitter at @ArkAgResearch. To learn more about the Division of Agriculture, visithttps://uada.edu/.Follow us on Twitter at@AgInArk. To learn about extension programs in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visitwww.uaex.uada.edu.

About the Division of Agriculture

The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation’s historic land grant education system.

The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.

The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs and services without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Media Contact: John Lovett
U of A System Division of Agriculture
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station
(479) 763-5929
jlovett@uada.edu

2024 Rice Field Day updates producers on latest research, rice breeding (2024)

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What is the rice breeding program? ›

Increase in grain yield potential is the major goal of almost all rice breeders programs. The major impacts are related to the development of new strategies to increase the genetic grain yield potential of the varieties. Rice breeders have been very successful in improving the crop.

What is the one rice breeding strategy? ›

However, according to IRRI's Senior Scientist Shalabh Dixit, OneRice “is the blueprint of how rice breeding should be done.” Launched by IRRI's Rice Breeding Platform, the OneRice breeding strategy creates a habitual breeding framework that provides CGIAR breeding centers with common terminology, resource management, ...

What are the disadvantages of hybrid rice? ›

Despite its many advantages, it has certain limitations, which include the low production of hybrid seeds, the high cost, and low power to detect loci with minor effects and heterosis complexity in hybrid rice [113].

What is the 3 line breeding system in rice? ›

Three line system: In this method hybrid rice is produced by utilizing cytoplasmic genetic male sterile system. The source of male sterile cytoplasm used is wild abortive. In this method there are three different lines i.e. A-line or male sterile line, B-line or maintainer line and restorer line or R- line.

What is golden rice strategy? ›

Golden Rice is developed through genetic engineering. While ordinary rice does produce beta carotene, it is not found in the grain. Thus, scientists used genetic engineering to add the compound to the grain - a minor tweak that improved the grain's nutritive value.

How do you maximize rice yield? ›

Giving rice seeds, especially pre-germinated ones, more room to grow is often more effective than planting more seeds in a condensed area. Ensuring that rice crops have space to extend their roots and obtain sufficient nutrients can promote better health and growth, thereby increasing yield.

Who is the father of rice breeding? ›

Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng; September 7, 1930 – May 22, 2021) was a Chinese agronomist and inventor. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s, part of the Green Revolution in agriculture.

How does rice breeding work? ›

In conventional breeding, and for rice programs as well, two parents are crossed and segregating generations are screened for the trait of interest, for example, disease resistance, maturity, height and protein. Uniform lines are tested for yield and along with resistance, desirable varieties are selected and released.

What is the LSU rice breeding program? ›

The breeding program has a comprehensive field testing component, winter nursery, a SNP DNA marker lab, and strives to incorporate enabling technologies from multiple disciplines. Varieties developed by the program are widely grown across Louisiana and the Southern U.S. rice production region.

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