"Most of the production comes from small and marginal farmers with very little or no safeguard." New study warns of major ...

Rice is one of the first domesticated crops (approximately 10,000 years ago). The artificial selection farmers have made for nutrition and other traits that maximize profit have reduced its ...

The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. has provided insurance on wild rice crops since 2006, and claims are triggered when a region reports production below historical averages, the province said ...

Michigan is home to a surprising array of crops, including wild rice, mint, asparagus and sugar. Here are 10 things that grow in the state.

Flooding largely wiped out the wild rice crop in 2022. “We need a break,” said Chris Holm, ecological resources director for the Bois Forte Band. Historic flooding hit the Rainy River Basin in ...

Wild rice — or Manoomin as the Ojibwe call it — is one of the Midwest's most sacred plants. ... Next, the crop is poured into a vessel where it will be parched in a kettle over a wood fire.

Wild rice grows in shallow waterways in the Great Lakes region and parts of Canada. It’s a plant that holds important ecological and cultural significance, but it’s been on the decline since ...

In the Midwest, a sacred wild rice plant has slowly vanished. University scientists and indigenous resource managers have combined their expertise to try to save it.

The funds awarded will help construct a 6,100-square-foot processing facility that will process Leech Lake’s only commercially produced crop. “Wild rice is a sacred part of Leech Lake’s ...