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 ...

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 ...

ALL. WE ALL KNOW WILD RICE, RIGHT? WELL, IF ALL YOU’VE EVER TASTED IS THAT STUFF THAT COMES OUT OF A BOX WITH THE LITTLE SPICE PACK, YOU MIGHT BE IN FOR A SURPRISE. CHEF MARK SHEEHAN WAS. I WOULD SAY ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Marquette University biology professor is researching the possibility of growing rice commercially in Wisconsin, despite the state's seasonally cold temperatures. Native American ...