A word of caution to rice growers: the herbicide fluridone has become a valuable tool in fighting Palmer pigweed, but it can ...

An excessively wet planting season has worsened in the last month for farmers across the Delta. “It’s changed from flood ...

Just five nations account for more than three-quarters of the emissions of this potent greenhouse gas that stem from rice ...

In particular, flooded rice paddy fields account for 12% of man-made methane emissions. This common production method keeps fields flooded to suppress weed growth, but decaying organic matter with ...

Driving through flooded gravel roads on his 3,000-acre farm in northeast Arkansas on April 24, Joe Christian said he expected it would take two more weeks for the floodwater to drain.

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A commando in an elite Sri Lankan police unit, Sameera Dilshan, has an unusual mission – to reclaim farms poisoned by salt, a ...

Each Chilean eats on average 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of rice per year—nearly half of which is grown domestically and 80% of that in flooded fields, according to the SRI-Rice research center at ...

In 2023, fluridone was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use in rice at the three-leaf stage and ...