The 'king of poisons' is building up in rice. Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts of slender green stalks.

They Paved Fields of Rice and Put Up a Solar Panel Lot Along the Gulf Coast, solar farms are displacing a water-hungry and increasingly untenable crop. Some residents don't have a sunny attitude ...

New medium‑grain variety ‘Venus’ debuted with 10% higher yields and strengthened domestic market potential at LSU AgCenter’s ...

Despite the drought, rice fields in Southeast Texas are emerald green this time of year, thanks to water released from two reservoirs hundreds of miles up the Colorado River. But the rice growers ...

As a rice farm, Orton Plantation would have to be considered a failure so far. Four years ago, workers planted about 200 acres of rice on these fields along the Cape Fear River, the first time ...

A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance. Farmer ...

Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's population—with increasing amounts of arsenic, creating a "scary" health burden.