Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying ...

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

Experts warn there's little that can be done to combat the issue, which is drastically impacting a major U.S. food market.

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Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling ...

Practical rice farming methods to boost yield, strengthen crops, and use water and nutrients efficiently for healthier, more productive harvests.

Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days he’s finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in south Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For every crawfish ...

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 ...

When you soak and rinse rice before cooking, you can save the water for your plants. Here are eight plants you can fertilize ...

Farmers are transforming Thailand’s rice fields through sustainable practices that are lowering costs, improving yields and ...