Local farmers were concerned. Officials issue warning as staple crop faces devastating threat: 'Threatens to undo all their hard work' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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 ...

Is crop diversification being viewed through a one-size-fits-all national lens that does not recognise regional variations?

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 ...

A team of scientists in China and the UK have discovered a potential breakthrough that could reduce rice farmers’ dependence on chemical fertilizers to sustain crop yields for the world’s most-eaten ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know ...

Rice output may drop 8% due to sharp fall in winter crop Export ban poised to remain ahead of election Asia, Africa buyers struggle to secure supply Government buys rice for subsidised distribution ...

Mumbai, March 9 -- Summer sowing is witnessing a decline this season due to weak trends in rice acreage. Acreage under summer crops, which will end by May, stood at 26.53 lakh hectares (lh) as on ...