Rice country is hurting, badly. Prices have collapsed to levels not seen in four decades, while production costs climb beyond $1,000 an acre. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, rice ...

President Donald Trump revealed Monday just how clueless he is about his own tariff policies, and appeared to improvise new rice tariffs on the fly after speaking with one rice farmer. During a ...

While much of the recent focus on U.S. farming has been on soybeans because of trade concerns with China, rice farmers have been struggling outside of the spotlight. "Our farmers have told us, if ...

Fred Zaunbrecher has been a rice farmer for 40 years. He says he’s not foreign to Louisiana's warm and moist climate, which is conducive to the growth of bacteria or fungus. "We had dry weather for ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - We have all heard about the high prices and low production during crawfish season. Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty ...

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

“Millers in Central and parts of South America would rather buy U.S. rice,” said Dwight Roberts, former CEO of the U.S. Rice ...

JOETSU, Japan (Reuters) -For more than half a century, the Japanese government has encouraged its rice farmers to grow less of the crop so that prices of the national staple grain remained relatively ...

OUR rice policy, which has been implemented since the 1970s, has consigned our palay farmers and agricultural workers in ...