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East bound and down (minus a load of Coors beer) was Part Two of my buddy Jeff and my adventure traveling from Denver to Augusta a couple of weeks ago. For a recap, day one started in Colorado and ...
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service held the 77th annual Beaumont Rice Field Day on July ...
Farmers in Italy's northeastern Po Delta region are battling an unusual pest: flamingos. These birds have been invading rice ...
Rice fields now cover nearly 70,000 acres across the state's coast in patches skirting tidal rivers. They are walled-off impoundments with gates that are raised or lowered to draw tidal water in ...
Three months later, the rice field of dreams comes alive in sweeping images. But it wasn't always as easy to appreciate. At the start in 1993, the first designs by the artists were clunky and flat.
LG Raun walking across a flooded rice field in El Campo on April 24, 2025. Photograph by Nick Simonite. Letter From They Paved Fields of Rice and Put Up a Solar Panel Lot ...
Today, farmers and researchers got a close-up look at the future of rice farming in Southeast Texas during the 77th Beaumont ...
Rice farmer Wayne England has irrigation canals running through his fields near Brookshire. "You make a living, but you don't have a pension," England said of his profession.
Rice fields across India host a variety of wild, edible plants that Indigenous communities value for their nutritional and medicinal properties. But these “weeds” are rapidly disappearing. To ...
Rice art. Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye.
Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can ...