Rice Field Day Aug. 11 at the Uni- versity of Arkansas Division of Agri- culture’s Rice Research and Extension Center. A 90-minute tour of research plots


will begin at 7:30 a.m. with a group leaving every 30 minutes from the new Arkansas Rice Farmers Confer- ence Center. The last group will leave at 9 a.m. The tour will include presentations on a new hybrid rice breeding program and new conven- tional varieties, rice fertility man- agement and weed management in rice and soybeans. Following the field tours, a pro-


gram starting at 10:45 a.m. in the conference center will cover eco- nomics and policy issues of: • water availability and rights, by


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ice growers will see what’s new, what’s coming soon and what may be coming at the annual


Tom Riley, community and eco- nomic development specialist; • establishing a carbon footprint


for rice varieties, by Lanier Nalley, agricultural economist; • yield potential by planting date


for rice and soybeans, by Terry Grif- fin, agricultural economist; and • biofuels, climate change and ir-


rigation implications, by Michael Popp, agricultural economist. On the field tour, Zhongbu Yan,


who recently joined the staff to help develop a hybrid rice breeding pro- gram, will show test plots of breed- ing lines, along with Wengui Yan, a geneticist at


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Bumpers National Rice Research Center, and RREC Director Christo- pher Deren. An update on a new nitrogen soil


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conducting field verification trials. The program is on track for a par- tial rollout to producers in 2011 and availability in 2012 for rice on silt loam soils. Plant breeders Karen Molden-


hauer and James Gibbons will give updates on new rice varieties and possible future varieties. New vari- eties include Roy J, Taggart, Tem- pleton, CL 142, CL 181, and the new aromatic rice, JES. Plant pathologist Rick Cartwright will dis- cuss disease resistance of new and current varieties. Division weed scientist Bob Scott


will discuss weed management pro- grams in rice and soybeans and ex- tension agronomist Jeremy Ross will discuss soybean production is-


sues. Displays on the Arkansas Rice Re-


search and Promotion Board and other commodity checkoff programs and research project posters will be presented in and around the lobby area. In a nearby tent, visitors can see


displays and visit with plant pathol- ogist Fleet Lee and others about plant diseases and with biosystems engineer Sammy Sadaka on biofu- els research. Miss Arkansas Rice will be on


hand at a “Living Well and Eating Well with Rice” tent. A “Rice ‘A’ Riffic” tent will have activities for children, and visitors can test the decibel level of their MP3 music players.


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