It would be a rare sight to spot an airboat equipped with a machine harvesting wild rice on northern Minnesota water. That’s because such a harvesting method is prohibited by tribal and state law. But ...

Members of Minnesota's Chippewa tribes will begin harvesting wild rice this week, off their reservations and without a state license, in an effort to gain affirmation of hunting, fishing and gathering ...

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 ...

ONEIDA – Tony Kuchma, wetlands program coordinator for the Oneida Nation, was exploring the tribe’s newly restored wetlands area one day about 15 years ago when he saw something that made him react as ...

Mark Pero, left, of Solon Springs, uses knocker harvesting sticks to tap manoomin (wild rice) into his canoe as Valerie Ross Zhaawendaagozikwe, of Solon Springs, moves their canoe through the manoomin ...

A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...

Diners who prefer their Minnesota wild rice harvested by hand may find it in short supply in the coming months. Heavy rain early this summer nearly wiped out the natural crop in eastern Minnesota, and ...

A farmer operates a machine to harvest rice at a paddy on the Cheorwon Plain, a sprawling area of rice paddies near South Korea's central border with North Korea in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, on Aug.

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 ...

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 ...

Tractor-mounted rice harvesting machines (also called backpack-type) don't have their own power source-they attach to a tractor via a suspension system, with the cutting platform at the front and ...