An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low prices for their crop and a high cost of doing business, many are wondering how they’ll make a ...

The poor things can’t help it, but cows are really gassy, and that’s really bad for the planet: Microbes in their guts produce methane — a greenhouse gas up to 80 times more powerful than carbon ...

Rising expenses and pest issues challenge Texas rice farmers as acreage declines from 142,000 to 120,000 acres in 2026.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Rice — a primary staple food for more than 3.5 billion people worldwide and a $365.6 billion ...

Growing rice can slow soil loss and the lowering of surface elevation. Frank Bienewald/Getty Images Rice was grown in the Everglades Agricultural Area for a brief period in the 1950s, but it was ...

The Philippine Rice Research Institute’s Drones4Rice initiative is pushing rice production deeper into digital agriculture, using drones to automate seeding, spraying and fertilizer application — a ...

Using an industrial microwave can shorten the time needed to dry rice bound for beer-making from days to hours and may lend itself to other food uses of the staple grain, Arkansas Agricultural ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is conducting a study to examine the structure of domestic rice ...

VIENTIANE: Lao and Japanese agricultural experts have discussed the use of satellites in rice farming and the evaluation of ...

MER ROUGE — Meryl Kennedy’s story begins in a truck, riding with her father around her family’s rice farm as a child growing up in northeast Louisiana. "He loved to take me out there," she recalled.

Destroying mature crops in the face of overproduction or a weak market is a waste of the country’s resources and a clear sign ...