Native plants have a secondary benefit: They provide a habitat and food source for invertebrates, which are nutritionally important for wild ducks during the breeding season. Planting sedges, ...

Linda Cockburn holds a Duborskian rice plant seed head in Southern Tasmania, Australia on April 1, 2023. (Linda Cockburn via AP) But that’s not the end of it.

Rice planting A farmer operates a machine to plant rice seedlings inside a greenhouse in Icheon, about 50 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on Feb. 13, 2025, during a ceremony to start planting Royal ...

The ducks and other wetland birds also forage in the area when the rice ripens. Seeding the same site for three years helps to ensure a self-sustaining seed bank.

Rice feeds the world—but it uses more water and emits more methane than any other crop. Jim Whitaker and his daughter, Jessica Whitaker Allen, are changing that on their Arkansas family farm.

Despite objections from duck hunters, new rules proposed by the USFWS for the National Wildlife Refuge System would reduce predator control, planting, and more. Hunting and conservation organizations ...

Andrus started planting that same year, ... So, in 2015, Andrus returned to Japan to visit more farms and attend a duck-rice farming conference hosted by a top expert in the technique, ...

ZAMA, Japan – A rice-planting event held near Camp Zama offered community members from the installation the chance to take part in a pastime that holds both cultural and culinary significance in ...

AGFC's Wetland Habitat Management and Winter Flooded Rice Fields programs enlist the help of private landowners to provide more suitable habitats for waterfowl. "90 percent of Arkansas is ...

This photo shows black-bellied whistling ducks in Louisiana. Jeff Durand has grown rice in St. Martinville Parish for decades, beginning in the 1980s when his family decided to clear the woodland ...

A pioneering rice farm in Vermont has embraced the agroecological technique known as “aigamo method,” which introduces ducks into rice fields to offer natural weed and pest control, along with ...