Rice

Golden rice was recently approved for commercial propagation in the Philippines after years of discussion. Donald MacKenzie, executive director of the Institute for International Crop Improvement at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, explains what he did to bring it to fruition.

It takes a lot of water to grow rice.Farmers in Missouri’s bootheel have plenty from underground aquifers, replenished by the Mississippi River. But in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 4, 2013 - Missouri has something close to 200,000 acres of farmland devoted to rice production,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 2, 2009 - In the Wall Street Journal, I read that Beijing has given the nod to genetically…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 4, 2009 - More than any other food, rice feeds our world. Fully half the world's population eats…