A: Clearing a rice field for cultivation was a mammoth task. The first thing one had to do was build a dike around it, even before you could clear it, because it was under water. Building the dike ...

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 ...

This story is part of our series "Shortage in Rich Land" on Missouri's Bootheel region. Click here to see all of the stories. Chuck Earnest drives along a dirt road next to his rice fields near Steele ...

Rice made South Carolina planters rich. By 1774, the coastal region exported some 66 million pounds annually of the grain, all sowed and harvested by enslaved workers in treacherous fields ...

For the Rauns, this political drama is just the latest setback to befall Texas rice farmers. In the industry’s heyday, around sixty years ago, the state’s rice belt boasted some 600,000 acres ...