ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

Chinese scientists have identified a key gene in wild rice that controls perennial traits, a discovery that could allow cultivated rice to be harvested multiple times from a single planting and ...

With its panicles -- or grain heads -- heavy with rice, the upright stems of the rice plant are particularly vulnerable to damage from winds and water the nearer they are to harvest. When crops are ...

RED WING, Minn. -- This year's late spring put many Minnesota crops behind schedule. Wild rice is no exception. As of early July, the rice crop -- which grows mainly in lakes, marshes and streams in ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - We have all heard about the high prices and low production during crawfish season. Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty ...

CASS LAKE, Minn. — The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was recently awarded $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to build a wild rice processing facility ...

NIIGATA -- Rice grown in dry fields in the first year of trial cultivation has been harvested here recently to the joy of the people involved in the project. The "water-saving dry direct seeding" ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...