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 is the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice. That would ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto.

Not enough to justify sowing the ground or toiling over a rice stalk ... The majority of the region's 250,000 acres of rice fields are fallow this year. A study by the University of California ...