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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A farmer operates a machine to harvest rice at a paddy on the Cheorwon Plain, a sprawling area of rice paddies near South Korea's central border with North Korea in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, on Aug.

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 ...

Nate Johnson pulls a piece of wild rice from its hull during the parching, or heating process, to gauge how much longer it will need to stay over the fire, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022, in Cass Lake, Minn.