Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? And what's actually the difference between all the rice ...

Is crop diversification being viewed through a one-size-fits-all national lens that does not recognise regional variations?

Rice growing in the U.S. is today mostly associated with Arkansas or California and historically, the Lowcountry and Mississippi Delta. But this summer, Cornell Cooperative Extension launched what it ...

After idling half the state’s normal rice acreage last year due to water shortages, farmers of the grain are back in full force with harvest underway in the Sacramento Valley. They’re off to a later ...

This Texas rice plant is infested with rice delphacids, a pest that decimated crops last year. An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low ...

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — Yet another round of severe weather is delaying Arkansas farmers planting their crops. Historic levels of rain this spring have challenged rice farmers in particular.