Title: Hybrid Rice Production Costs and Returns: Comparisons with Conventional & Clearfield Varieties
Abstract: Rice producers in Louisiana have several rice varieties to choose from when deciding to diversify their farm acreage. Recommended rice varieties can differ in many aspects which ultimately influence costs and returns, such as seedling vigor, disease resistance, milling quality and yield potential. A good farm management practice would be to have a mix of rice varieties planted in a given season to mitigate yield risk across all planted rice acreage on the farm. According to the 2009 Louisiana rice acreage summary, compiled by the LSU AgCenter, of the approximate 456,000 acres of rice in planted in the state in 2009, long grain varieties were produced on roughly 89 percent of the total rice acreage, with the remaining 11 percent of acreage in medium grain varieties. Leading conventional rice varieties in production included the long grain varieties Cocodrie (8.9%) and Cheniere (7.9%) as well as the medium grain variety Jupiter (8.9%). Approximately 47% of the state’s total rice acreage was planted in Clearfield varieties, with CL151 accounting for 25.6% of all rice acreage and smaller acreages planted to CL131, CL161 and CL171. Acreage planted in hybrid rice varieties represented about 15% of the total rice acreage planted in the state in 2009. The largest hybrid acreages were in the varieties CLXL729 and CLXL745, each accounting for about 6% of total state rice acreage, with smaller acreages planted in the varieties CLXL730, XP746 and XL723,
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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