Boozhoo ("hello" in Ojibwe) and miigwech ("thank you") for reading the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter. Wild ricing season is upon us and harvesters will descend upon lakes and wetlands across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting ...

Minnesota's wild rice harvesting season is open from Friday, Aug. 15, to Tuesday, Sept. 30. Despite the season dates, harvesters must first ensure the rice is ripe before launching their canoes, ...

In the final dispatch from their #WildernessYear canoeing in Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Dave and Amy Freeman learn to harvest wild rice. TICK, TICK, TICK. The satisfying sound of wild rice ...

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 ...

A local family rice business is in the process of harvesting their 100th rice crop. Dennis Spooner, of Spooner & Sons, has been farming for most of his life – being involved in the family business for ...

In the season of feasting, summer-grown bounty graces northern tables as more than holiday plenty—it sustains the region's inhabitants through the winter, as it has through the centuries for the ...

Finding a good stand of wild rice is only the first step in a labor-intensive endeavor that requires paddling or poling a canoe, harvesting by hand, and drying — either at home or in one of the ...

DULUTH — The dwindling number of Minnesotans who take to lakes and rivers to harvest wild rice late each summer will have to wait a little longer to start this year's season, according to Department ...

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 ...

The process of removing rocks and plowing the rice field with your hoe to prepare an environment where rice can easily grow. The better you plow, the better the rice-plant’s roots will spread and grow ...

The recent rain in Central Arkansas has had an impact on Arkansas farmers who are ready to harvest their crops. Officials with the Arkansas Farm Bureau weigh in on the potential economic loss if the ...