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 ...

Rice farmers improve milling quality through strategic hybrid planting sequences and proper drain timing to manage harvest ...

Rice, the world’s most consumed grain, will become increasingly toxic as the atmosphere heats and as carbon dioxide emissions rise, potentially putting billions of people at risk of cancers and other ...

U.S. rice farmers, typically eclipsed by top domestic crops like corn, are getting face time with President Donald Trump. Now ...

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 ...

Local rice varieties in Vietnam could be used to help breed improved crops with higher resilience to climate change, according to a new study published in Rice. Earlham Institute researchers are part ...

In a new study published in the journal Science on March 24, 2022 (“Convergent selection of a WD40 protein that enhances grain yield in maize and rice“), researchers have compared a genetic region in ...

Stop feeling guilty about your bowl of jasmine or basmati. Nutrition scientists reveal why an "abundance mindset" is more ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - - Thailand may lose a quarter of its main rice crop in the nation's worst flooding in decades, the government estimates, which could boost prices of the staple and further squeeze ...

Heavy rains could flood some rice fields in southern China this week, threatening output of the most-consumed staple grain in the country. Torrential rains, brought by Typhoon Haikui, are expected to ...