Curious about how to increase your profit as a rice grower? Learn more about how to increase your profits below from Ronnie Helms, Ph.D and research agronomist.
The following content was contributed by Ronnie Helms, Ph.D and research agronomist. In the clip below and the transcription, he discusses factors that contribute to greater profitability for rice growers.
Transcription of Ronnie Helms:
Good planting dates is the major part of it. The environment dictates basically all the yield that we have in any commodity. But plant in a timely manner.
But the other thing that I think is genetics and the hybrids coming on, and those just enhance that possibility to create more yield potential. If prices are down, you want higher and higher yields. But I think the EMI-tolerance is a big player too, because we have resistance, obviously, is a big issue, but if you have EMI-tolerant rice, rice, you do have two more active ingredients that you can use that perhaps will control part of the weed spectrum out there area if there is some resistance, along with the other herbicides that we have, and that we can use in conventional or the EMI system.