Experiment growing this staple food in containers or in the garden. Enjoy the lovely plant and expect a small harvest. Grow rice (Oryza sativa) in the home garden, and you’ll have a much greater ...

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 — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

Rice is the daily staple for more than 3.5 billion people around the world, but producing it comes with huge costs to the ...

The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs. But this may be about to change, thanks ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. A portion of the reporting in Alexander County is supported by funding from the Pulitzer ...