Is rice the "climate-change crop" the Northeast needs?
SalonRice growing in the U.S. is today mostly associated with Arkansas or California and historically, the Lowcountry and Mississippi Delta. Others, since rice can be grown without flooding, are turning their focus to "upland" rice varieties — which can be planted in rows and grown with a combination of rain and irrigation, known as "dryland growing" in the world of rice. "There are so many marginal ag assets that could become nodes of new successful rice farming in the northeastern landscape," he says, adding that intercultural experience would support learning. Another method of rice farming that reduces methane emissions by using far less water is the dryland approach of growing without paddies. And then there's the kitchen R&D, from the various ways of cooking the grain to creating products like granulated rice "sugar."
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