Rice farmers improve milling quality through strategic hybrid planting sequences and proper drain timing to manage harvest ...

Global warming is leading to smaller yields and poorer quality in rice crops, according to new research that suggests rice harvests could decrease by up to 35% and quality by up to 85% compared to ...

SOUTH CHIPPEWA LAKE, Minn. - Earl and Kathy Hoagland glide through the reedy shallows with a fluid choreography of motion melded by decades of shared work. Earl, planting his long pole in the muddy ...

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A SINGLE technology upgrade could demonstrate how targeted government support raises farm productivity, creates jobs, and strengthens the country’s agricultural backbone.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - We have all heard about the high prices and low production during crawfish season. Well, now it’s time for rice harvest. When driving in Southwest Louisiana, it’s pretty ...

MOLE LAKE - Wild rice harvest season runs through mid-September in northern Wisconsin, and while many tribal and non-tribal people are enjoying their annual pilgrimages to their favorite rice wetlands ...

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 commercial rice market had withered after the Civil War, which is why the plantation suddenly seemed undesirable: Not only was the profitable production of rice dependent on enslaved labor, but ...

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Katy Rice Harvest Festival returns in October, and country musician Stoney LaRue will be headlining the event. NOW OPEN IN KATY: New Katy restaurants offer spice levels for chicken meals and more than ...