Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Rice harvest hopes dim with rain, wind damage

"Some rice is pancaked in the worst areas." The previous week, the outlook for Arkansas' rice harvest was upbeat, with Hardke expecting that the state might approach 2021's record yield. However, ...
AG Week

$3.6 million award helping Leech Lake Band keep their wild rice in one place

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 ...
WKAR

Indigenous communities push to name wild rice as Michigan's official native grain

People reseed rice back into the water following a harvest during a 2019 wild rice camp in Alberta, MI. 200 years ago, wild rice grew in almost every waterway in Michigan. Indigenous communities in ...
NPR

African farmer grows rice paddies in N.Y.'s Hudson Valley

Rice farming is rare in the Northeast U.S. But one Gambian-born farmer is trying to make a go of it in New York's Hudson Valley. Rice farming is new to the Northeast. What's thought to be the first ...