The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced a $12 billion farmer aid package -- with $11 billion earmarked for ...

GRIDLEY — Twenty first grade students watched with wide eyes as Luis Espino showed them how to mull and till rice. Espino, who works for University of California Cooperative Extension, said brown rice ...

Charles Williams, another rice farmer who met with Trump and USDA officials at the White House, echoes those concern. “We’re ...

Sam (left), Jim (center), and Scott (far right) Whitaker talk about the work needing to be done on their family farm. Credit: Phillip Powell / Arkansas Times As groundwater levels in the Arkansas ...

Rice farming, with intricate irrigation systems and tight-knit farming communities, has long been suspected of fostering collectivism. However, proving this theory requires navigating confounding ...

While brown rice often gets labeled as the “healthier” choice, experts say the truth depends on how you eat — and why ...

Rice farming is hard. It’s complicated. Traditional rice farming takes twice the amount of labor as crops like wheat, corn and potatoes. Paddy rice was built on irrigation networks that forced farmers ...

By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen ...