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 ...
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 ...
In the final dispatch from their #WildernessYear canoeing in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Dave and Amy Freeman learn to harvest wild rice. TICK, TICK, TICK. The satisfying sound of wild rice ...
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 ...
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 ...
Staff at the Rice Research and Extension Center at Stuttgart pull out all available combines to harvest foundation seed ahead of Tropical Storm Gordon. This Sept. 4 photo shows an aging combine ...
In the season of feasting, summer-grown bounty graces northern tables as more than holiday plenty—it sustains the region's inhabitants through the winter, as it has through the centuries for the ...
As the Aug. 15 wild rice season opening date approaches, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reminds harvesters that rice stands must be ripe before they can be legally harvested. Wild rice ...
A job isn’t always just a job – sometimes it is a way of life. This story is part of a series exploring what it means when jobs define several generations and are part of the very fabric of a ...
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) branches are paying much more for early rice than last year, meaning that rice prices ...
Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting machine is the perfect example of how grain harvesting has evolved ...
The commercial rice market had withered after the Civil War, which is why the plantation suddenly seemed undesirable: Not only was the profitable production of rice dependent on enslaved labor, but ...