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 ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

I love wild rice soup, but I think most of the stuff available in restaurants is too gloppy and overly salty, not to mention that the vegetables tend to be cooked to oblivion. I like to use rice ...

Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

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 ...

Global warming is leading to smaller yields and poorer quality in rice crops, according to new research that suggests rice harvests could decrease by up to 35% and quality by up to 85% compared to ...

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 ...

Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) branches are paying much more for early rice than last year, meaning that rice prices ...

"Some rice is pancaked in the worst areas." The previous week, the outlook for Arkansas' rice harvest was upbeat, with Hardke expecting that the state might approach 2021's record yield. However, ...