Stories Tagged "rice"
Farm Bill Marches Out of Committee
posted on May 17, 2013 at 5:22 PM
South Korea Suspends Bidding for US Rice Imports
posted on September 28, 2012 at 12:44 PM
The FDA found no evidence in its preliminary study that the rice is unsafe
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Japan Farmers Plant, Pray For Radiation-Free Rice
posted on June 1, 2012 at 10:45 AM
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Last year's crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He's living up to his family's proud, six-generation history...
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Farmers Tell House Committee How to Shape 2012 Farm Bill
posted on May 17, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Texas Rice Farmers Won't Get Water for Irrigation
posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:18 PM
HOUSTON (AP) -- Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year of drought.
The Lower Colorado River Authority said Friday it won't release water from two...
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Farmers Furious After Iraq Stops Buying US Rice
posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM
DAYTON, Texas (AP) -- The talk of the day among Ray Stoesser and other rice farmers is Iraq's decision not to buy U.S. rice, a stinging move that adds to a stressful year punctuated by everything from drought to unusual heat.
Stoesser and other...
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Rice Production Another Drought Casualty
posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Five generations of Ronald Gertson's family have tilled the claylike soil of southeast Texas to grow rice, confident that no matter how fickle Mother Nature was, there would be one constant: water to irrigate their crop.
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Water Proposal Could Devastate Texas Rice Industry
posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:10 PM
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - About 170 farmers in a South Texasrice-producing region could lose their main source of water nextyear under an emergency drought measure approved by the LowerColorado River Authority.
A last-minute compromise Wednesday...
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Tai Rice Subsidy Scheme to Push up World Prices
posted on September 9, 2011 at 2:46 PM
BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's plan to pay its rice growers far above market rates is expected to push up prices for the staple that feeds almost half the world's people as rice importing nations look to other countries for tightened supplies.
A new...
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World Assesses Mother Nature's Impact on Japan
posted on March 25, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Philippines Swimming in Rice Amid High Imports
posted on July 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The world's biggest rice importer, the Philippines, is now "swimming" in the staple grain because of massive imports by the previous government that drove world prices to record highs and possibly enriched corrupt...
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Jury Tells Bayer to Pay Ark. Rice Farmers $48M
posted on April 16, 2010 at 5:04 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark (AP) — A jury says Bayer CropScience must pay a dozen Arkansas farmers $48 million over a genetically altered strain of rice that got into the commercial market.
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Bayer Must Pay $1.5M to U.S. Rice Farmers
posted on February 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM
ST LOUIS (AP)--A federal court jury has ordered the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience to pay $1.5 million to farmers in Arkansas and Mississippi whose rice seed was contaminated with a genetically altered strain.
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Farmers Sue German Company Over Strain of Rice
posted on August 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Nearly 1,500 rice farmers are suing the German conglomerate Bayer Cropscience and affiliated companies over a genetically engineered strain of rice.
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Deadline Nears For $44.5M in Agriculture Grants
posted on August 7, 2009 at 8:08 PM
BATON ROUGE, La (AP)- Farmers, ranchers and agribusiness professionals have until Aug.
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