Roger Labine uses ricing sticks, or knockers, to harvest wild rice on Lake Tawas. Every year as summer ends, Indigenous Michiganders head out onto lakes and rivers to collect wild rice, a staple food ...

It would be a rare sight to spot an airboat equipped with a machine harvesting wild rice on northern Minnesota water. That’s because such a harvesting method is prohibited by tribal and state law. But ...

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 the early ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields, and that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with — the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice — can be considered ...

CHIANG RAI - Rising diesel prices are putting real pressure on rice farmers and combine harvester operators across Chiang Rai. What used to be a manageable ...