By combining growth-enhancing microbes with the organic waste generated during rice production, a research team in Japan aims to create a functional compost tailor-made for rice cultivation.

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency launched the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP), ...

"I'm afraid more rice farmers will be giving up." Around his farm, where he was born and raised, depopulation has progressed at an alarming rate in the last 10 years, triggering mass retirements ...

The same phenomenon that forms the Northern Lights could change modern agriculture as we know it by replacing chemical ...