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 1991, the state of California largely banned burning of rice straw after harvest, and farmers turned instead to winter flooding of fields to break down straw. As a result, wildlife has flourished ...

A rice operation implementing the Fish in the Fields program to help reduce methane emissions. RRI/Chance Cutrano . Fish in the Fields began in 2022 at Isbell Farms in England, Arkansas, as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agritech firm N-Drip raises $44 million in Liechtenstein-led funding round Drip irrigation tech developer inks cooperation agreement for the marketing of its systems in rice fields in the US ...