Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

Rice activities are in full swing around the valley, as local growers prepare and plant their fields for the season. “We’re in every phase of rice production now — tractor work, fertilizer, irrigation ...

A Cape Girardeau rice producer has acquired 12 acres of industrial property along Nash Road with the intent of building a rice processing plant for his crop, as well as the crops of other rice farmers ...