Building a bridge between farmers and wildlife conservation is the goal behind a new project designed to help salmon populations recover in California's Central Valley. Researchers say winter flooded ...

More than 236,000 acres of rice fields spanning 160 miles once covered coastal South Carolina, according to a recent mapping project that used modern tools to document the massive footprint of the ...

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 be considered ...

The abundance of rainfall this past winter was a welcome reprieve from the five to six drops California seemed to be getting on average the past many years. Perhaps one of the biggest impacts the ...

A growing number of Arkansas farmers are taking up the seasonal fall and winter practice of flooding their rice fields after harvest to provide refuge to migratory waterfowl. The practice, promoted by ...

Thumbs up for a rice operation implementing the Fish in the Fields program to help reduce methane emissions. Rice feeds half of the world’s population. Conventional rice harvesting, though, is ...

Farmers are transforming Thailand’s rice fields through sustainable practices that are lowering costs, improving yields and ...