Eight Hmong immigrant women from Laos and a Marquette University researcher made Wisconsin agricultural history this week as they stood in ankle-deep, watery mud to plant domesticated rice seedlings ...
Most of the world’s rice production occurs oceans away from the United States. In 2011, molecular biologist Michael Schläppi dove into rice research hoping to grow the grain in Wisconsin. According ...
Rice is cultivated all over the world in fields known as rice paddies and it is one of the most maintenance intensive crops to grow. The rice paddy itself requires a large part of that maintenance. It ...