Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the 77th annual Beaumont Rice Field Day on July 10.

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 ...

Crops that use less water and thrive with lower inputs are coming thanks to new technologies led by longtime researcher Yubin Yang, Ph.D.

A project at at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new approach for identifying hazardous contaminants in soil samples. Described in PNAS , the technique could make it ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. Climate change is loading the beloved grain with arsenic, creating a “scary” health burden.

The new black pearl rice can thrive under regenerative organic practices (a way of farming that focuses on soil health and less environmental impact) and has a higher crop yield than previous ...

Traditional rice cultivation that uses levees and gates to manage water, also known as “flooded rice” or “paddy rice,” allows the entire field to be flooded. Rice cultivars tested included ...

Researchers found that flooded rice fields tend to have higher amounts of arsenic and lower amounts of cadmium while drier rice fields have lower amounts of arsenic and higher amounts of cadmium ...

Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake ...

The introduction of the Soilsens Soil Testing Rapid Kit aligns with GRDB’s ongoing efforts to support rice farmers in improving crop yields and sustainability.