Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drone image shows a combine harvester unloading freshly harvested rice into a truck in Chalastra, Greece, October 24, 2025.

A word of caution to rice growers: the herbicide fluridone has become a valuable tool in fighting Palmer pigweed, but it can cause injury to some rice cultivars, depending on when it is used.

NAGOYA, Japan >> Aichi prefecture is striving to increase rice production amid high rice prices across Japan. But the prefecture faces a formidable threat from pests, whose damage is intensified by ...

Rice producers can start signing up next week for $250 million in special payments Congress provided to shore up grower income after lackluster returns in 2022. USDA's Farm Service Agency will start ...

Rice growers and agricultural professionals from across the Sacramento Valley — including here in Yolo County — are invited to attend the 2026 Rice Production Workshop, a two-day educational program ...

An invasive insect called the rice delphacid was a major problem for some farmers in 2025. With low prices for their crop and ...

Outside Havana, a combine belonging to a private Vietnamese company is harvesting rice, directly farming Cuban land -- in a first -- to help address acute food shortages in the country. The Cuban ...

Pine Bluff-based rice mill co-owner PJ Haynie -- a fifth-generation farmer from the coastal plains of Virginia -- is working in Arkansas to promote sustainable farming and to advocate for underserved ...

Jarrod Hardke has a word for the 2022 rice season -- erratic. "The year began with dramatically higher input costs, especially for fertilizer and diesel fuel," said Hardke, extension rice agronomist ...

In an ordinary field in a quiet part of east England, a unique experiment is taking root. "When I tell people what I'm doing here, they think I'm joking," says Nadine Mitschunas, the UK's first and ...

Greek Rice Growers Fear Mercosur Deal Will Price Them Out of Business CHALASTRA, Greece, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Rice growers in northern Greece ‌had braced for a tough 2026 ‌season as competition from non ...