On the University of Delaware Farm in Newark, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences faculty and student researchers are investigating nutrients and toxins in rice — a staple crop for nearly half of ...
A new study has revealed both the promise and the complexity of using duckweed as a biological tool for managing nitrogen ...
Under a midday summer sun in California’s Sacramento Valley, rice farmer Peter Rystrom walks across a dusty, barren plot of land, parched soil crunching beneath each step. In a typical year, he’d be ...
Can rice be grown in the southern United States using much less water with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method? That's the question Konda Mason sought to answer when she leased two acres ...
With the 2023 harvest approaching, rice farmers and industry professionals took some time to regroup at the Arkansas Rice Field Day at Stuttgart. The annual event was held Aug. 3 at the University of ...
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot ...
A project at at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new approach for identifying hazardous contaminants in soil samples. Described in PNAS, the technique could make it ...