Winter flooding critical. The authors emphasize that rice acreage alone — even as much as 500,000 acres — will not sustain these species unless water is available during the winter and during critical ...

Dry cracked earth reveals an empty irrigation ditch in a fallowed rice field in this 2021 file photo. ... “Unfortunately, those protections for winter-run didn’t help the fish,” Bettner said.

In addition to flooding their fields for waterfowl, some rice farmers have hunting blinds that they lease to hunters for anywhere from $3,000 to $8,000 per season, said Dan Smith, a waterfowl ...

Half of humanity eats it. Climate change is wrecking it. And around the world, people are finding creative new ways to grow it. Rice Gets Reimagined, From the Mississippi to the Mekong By Somini ...

Riceland Foods distributed over $4 million to its farmers enrolled in the 2024 Riceland Carbon Ready™ Program. Since launched ...

Rice cultivation, surprisingly enough, accounts for another 12 percent of humanity’s global methane emissions. As with cows, the problem is burps — lots and lots of tiny burps.

AGFC's Wetland Habitat Management and Winter Flooded Rice Fields programs enlist the help of private landowners to provide more suitable habitats for waterfowl. "90 percent of Arkansas is ...