Most rice varieties require a long, hot growing season. But farmers as far north as Maine are experimenting with short-season heirloom varieties from Japan. Arguably the world’s most important food ...

Eight Hmong immigrant women from Laos and a Marquette University researcher made Wisconsin agricultural history this week as they stood in ankle-deep, watery mud to plant domesticated rice seedlings ...

A farmer uses a drum seeder to directly plant rice by pulling the equipment across the field, allowing uniform row seeding, adjustable seeding rates of 40 or 60 kilograms per hectare, and a planting ...