Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Malaysia is struggling to keep a staple food — rice — readily available to the country's citizens. With the ...

Chinese scientists have identified a key gene in wild rice that controls perennial traits, a discovery that could allow cultivated rice to be harvested multiple times from a single planting and ...

This Texas rice plant is infested with rice delphacids, a pest that decimated crops last year. An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low ...

Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? And what's actually the difference between all the rice ...

Farmers in the Mississippi Delta are dealing with a nightmarish 2025 with an unsolvable problem. They simply have too much of their rice crops with nowhere to sell them. The New York Times reported on ...

After idling half the state’s normal rice acreage last year due to water shortages, farmers of the grain are back in full force with harvest underway in the Sacramento Valley. They’re off to a later ...

Rice growing in the U.S. is today mostly associated with Arkansas or California and historically, the Lowcountry and Mississippi Delta. But this summer, Cornell Cooperative Extension launched what it ...