a weed scientist with the LSU AgCenter. Louisiana has roughly 400,000 acres of rice planted this year, a decrease of more than 8 percent. The crop suffered limited damage from Tropical Storm Cindy.

Laboratory analysis verified these accounts: Scientists saw evidence that the weeds ... of weedy rice collected from fields in nine counties or parishes of Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana in ...

The ratoon rice crop could be a near-total loss in Texas and Louisiana after the wrath of Hurricane Harvey subsides. The vast majority of Gulf Coast rice was harvested before the arrival of Harvey ...