Topic: Rice Farming

US rice doesn't help struggling Haitian farmers

Flood of post-quake donated and subsidized US rice dismays Haitian farmersHaiti's rice farmers are dismayed. It's nearly harvest time in this fertile valley where the bulk of Haiti's food is grown, and they're competing once again with cheap U.S. imported rice. Just down the road ...
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Jury: Bayer must pay $1.5M to AK, MS rice farmers

<div id="subtitle">Missouri federal court jury: Bayer should pay $1.5M to US farmers for contaminated rice</div><div><p>A federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and ...
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Record yield for Louisiana rice in 2009

<div id="subtitle">Louisiana farmers average 6,300 pounds of rice per acre _ highest in state history</div><div><p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Louisiana rice farmers averaged a record 6,300 pounds of rice per acre last ...
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Rice an unlikely global warming culprit

<div><p>Asian rice farmers typically do not fly around the world on holidays or own big-engine cars but scientists say they have an important role to play in helping cut the world's output of greenhouse gases.</p><p>While much ...
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