Mention Japan’s Niigata prefecture and rice usually comes to mind. Niigata ranks first in the nation in terms of rice cultivation area and production levels. This northwestern region is flanked by ...

New rice varieties from RiceTec and Horizon Ag offer more supply and reduced costs for growers battling herbicide resistance ...

The black birds were a good omen. We didn’t know it at the time. We just thought their appearance on our farm was unusual. The black ibis is a rare sight in our village. The arrival of these birds in ...

South American rice producers use quality standards and disciplined management to outcompete U.S. farmers in traditional ...

Through a partnership with Regrow Ag, precision-agriculture business Netafim is helping rice farmers worldwide to seamlessly adopt climate-smart farming practices. Netafim — a precision-agriculture ...

BASEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syngenta Crop Protection and FMC Corporation announced today an agreement to bring to market a breakthrough technology to control grass weeds in rice in Asia. The ...

Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest (RF) classifiers with matched features produced more complete paddy rice mapping results than those with unmatched features, reducing misclassifications ...

The global production of six major food and animal feed crops (corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, cassava, and millet) has dramatically increased and far outpaced world population growth between 1961 and ...