HORIZON AG NEWS

Free Webinars in Louisiana and Arkansas

Horizon Ag together with industry partners will be hosting free webinars in the coming weeks focused on rice weed control, resistance management and stewardship.

The first webinar in cooperation with LSU is set for Wednesday, January 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 CST and is entitled Louisiana Rice in 2025: Resistance, Best Management Practices, and Stewardship.

Participants can earn 1 CCA Credit for attending and will receive a gift.

To register, click/tap the image above, or visit bit.ly/4feydp6. 

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Focusing on Future Success

We hope to see you in Memphis, Tennessee on Jan. 27 for the Conservation System Cotton & Rice Conference at the Hilton Hotel East Memphis. 

Dr. Tim Walker, Horizon Ag CEO, will be leading two conference breakout sessions with the topic Provisia® Rice: Past Lessons Set Stage for Future Success, sharing key learnings from recent seasons that can help rice farmers best manage Provisia varieties and the Provisia Rice System for the 2025 season.

The breakout sessions are scheduled for Monday, Jan. 27, with the first at 11:12 a.m. in Meeting Room #6, and the second at 4:51 p.m. in Meeting Room #9. 

In 2018, Horizon Ag launched Provisia varieties, the first ACCase-tolerant rice, over 15 years after it introduced Clearfield® varieties to help farmers control red rice. 

There has been considerable adoption of the technology in areas like southwest Louisiana and parts of Southeast Arkansas and Northeast Arkansas, where a second technology was needed due to the severe threat to yields posed by weedy rice and resistant red rice.

Growers in other regions, where better rotation options are available, have been slower to try Provisia rice but that may be changing with the considerably higher yield potential and benefits of new varieties like PVL04. 

“Horizon Ag has worked closely with growers and university partners on how to best manage Provisia varieties, making great strides since the launch of Provisia rice,” says Dr. Walker. “The goal of this session is to review best management practices so farmers can successfully integrate this technology into herbicide rotation systems. By doing so successfully, we can extend the lives of both the Clearfield and Provisia technologies while improving on-farm productivity.”

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Committed to Rice Farmers

Horizon Ag is proud to help rice growers meet their 2025 planting needs with top-performing varieties like Clearfield® CLL19, CLL18 and CLL16, and Provisia® PVL03.

If you are new to our varieties and to working with Horizon Ag, we want you to know the entire Horizon team values your business and is committed to your success with our rice seed. We can provide best management practices proven to help maximize variety potential, and are ready to quickly respond to your in-season production questions or concerns.

A great way to start is by downloading the Horizon Ag Productivity App in the App Store or Google Play. 

The Horizon Ag Productivity app provides easy access to critical management recommendations and tools, including seeding rates, fertilizer recommendations and other suggested management practices to help you get the most out of our varieties. The app also has been updated with an ROI calculator and other tools for the 2025 season.

More information on all of our varieties can also be found at www.horizonseed.com, along with the latest rice news, technical information, details regarding retail partners in your area and contact information for your local Horizon Ag District Field Representative, such as:

Northeast Arkansas & Missouri 
Robyn Chlapecka
rchlapecka@horizonseed.com

North Central Arkansas
Chase Kagen
ckagen@horizonseed.com

Arkansas Grand Prairie
William “Hutch” Hutchens
whutchens@horizonseed.com

Mississippi/North Louisiana
Garland Melton
gmelton@horizonseed.com

South Central Louisiana
Corey Conner
cconner@horizonseed.com

Texas
Hunter Brown
hbrown@horizonseed.com

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