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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THAT’S YOUR RICE SUPPLY RIGHT THERE. THIS RICE IS READY FOR HARVEST. I STRETCHED EVERY DROP AS FAR AS I COULD. CALIFORNIA RICE GROWER CURT RICHTER MANAGED TO SQUEAK OUT ABOUT A QUARTER OF WHAT HE ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...

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" ...