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 ...

Jim Dixon, of St. Louis Park, left, watches Matt Hardy, of Big Lake, bag wild rice from the bottom of their canoe Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, at Green's Point on the Mississippi River. The ricers paddled ...

Mark Pero, left, of Solon Springs, uses knocker harvesting sticks to tap manoomin (wild rice) into his canoe as Valerie Ross Zhaawendaagozikwe, of Solon Springs, moves their canoe through the manoomin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ODANAH – As Ben Connors watched his two teenage boys this late summer load up the gear on the canoe to harvest wild rice on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in northern Wisconsin — and actually be ...