Jamison Cruce with USA Rice says USDA’s new Economic Commodity Assistance Program will help rice farmers dealing with high input costs and declining prices. “Rice was a commodity that didn’t ...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a tender of 26,500 MT of bulk milled rice for its Food for ...

Niigata ranks first in the nation in terms of rice cultivation area and production levels. This northwestern region is flanked by mountains and sea. It offers favourable growing conditions ...

A recently published article in the journal Weed Science demonstrates just how devastating Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus ...

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THERE have been continuing commentaries on how bad our agricultural sector, particularly rice farming, has been for a long time now. Sadly, there appears to be no clear dramatic improvement in sight.

"I'm afraid more rice farmers will be giving up." Around his farm, where he was born and raised, depopulation has progressed at an alarming rate in the last 10 years, triggering mass retirements ...

But rice production has a significant environmental footprint. Current practices are wasteful of increasingly scarce and costly resources such as water and fossil fuels. Heavily fertilized, ...