The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high ...

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 ...

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring ...