Leanna Goose grew up ricing manoomin (wild rice) as a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.  “Wild rice is culturally ...

An Native American tribe is working to restore wild rice to five eastern Minnesota lakes. The work is being done by The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The band is trying to mimic the ...

Farther south in the Delta, St. Charles, Arkansas farmer Heath Whitmore says it was a struggle to get the row crops in this spring so they’re behind, but his rice development is ahead of the ...

From LeahConnecting with my Ojibwe heritage by learning to harvest wild rice MPR News senior editor Leah Lemm walks with her son Marvin from his school bus stop on Jan. 2. So, she set out with a ...

Wild strains, he points out ... Using these methods to better understand drought resistance in rice will be key to designing better crops, Uga says. The next step for his team is to use these ...

Central to their platform and message is saving the state grain — wild rice, manoomin in the Ojibwe language, psin in Dakota.

GM crops could cause allergic reactions in people. Pollen produced by the plants could be toxic and harm insects that transfer it between plants. Scientists have added a gene to wild rice that ...