Pine Bluff-based rice mill co-owner PJ Haynie -- a fifth-generation farmer from the coastal plains of Virginia -- is working in Arkansas to promote sustainable farming and to advocate for underserved ...

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

The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture will allow Arkansas mills to give away two breeds of commercial grain developed by the Arkansas Rice Breeding Program to be used as rice seed to ...

A new economic study shows the potential for an ancient process to develop new domestic demand for rice and offset declining exports. That process is malting, which has been around for millennia but ...

Ever since news broke that the renowned rice-producing family at Koda Farms planned to step back from day-to-day farming, co-owner Robin Koda has fielded dozens of telephone calls and messages on ...

Sam (left), Jim (center), and Scott (far right) Whitaker talk about the work needing to be done on their family farm. Credit: Phillip Powell / Arkansas Times As groundwater levels in the Arkansas ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...