Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting ...

Finding a good stand of wild rice is only the first step in a labor-intensive endeavor that requires paddling or poling a canoe, harvesting by hand, and drying — either at home or in one of the ...

You don’t need to look very hard to see how much the Northland loves wild rice. But for many people, the rice has a greater importance than just tasting good. UW-S students are learning how to gather ...

BALL CLUB, Minn. -- It all starts with building a wood fire early in the morning to create the bed of glowing coals needed to parch rice through the day. John Hayes and John Beltman are tending the ...

We journey through the time-honored tradition of wild rice harvesting, known as manoomin. In this episode of Native Report, we journey through the time-honored tradition of wild rice harvesting, known ...

ON LEECH LAKE, Minn. — Seated low in her canoe sliding through a rice bed on this vast lake, Kendra Haugen used one wooden stick to bend the stalks and another to knock the rice off, so gently the ...

Over the past 40 years, the amount of Manoomin has decreased by about 50%, wild rice technician at Trout Lake Station Sagen Quale said. Manoomin is Ojibwe for wild rice and translates to “good berry.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ON LEECH LAKE, Minnesota (AP) — Seated low ...