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 ...

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 ...

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Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? Rice is a staple crop around the world, but how did that come to be? And what's actually the difference between all the rice ...

Manoomin, a crop vital to the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Midwest, has been threatened in recent years. But careful stewardship is helping to bring it back. By Kevin Noble Maillard Reporting from ...

Weedy rice is an agricultural pest with a global economic impact. It is an aggressive weed that outcompetes cultivated rice and causes billions of dollars in yield losses worldwide. A study offers new ...

A near-complete genomic framework of wild Oryza species now provides insights into the evolution of the genus and offers new avenues for crop improvement and conservation efforts [1]. This genomic ...

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