John Pastor, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, has been growing wild rice in tanks to learn more about how sulfur affects the plant. He’s looking for patterns to see what ...

In fact, it's the official grain of Minnesota! Wild rice is the edible ... rice fields in order to harvest the grain, not to grow it. Wild rice actually grows in the water and only the flowering ...

The Minnesota Grown Program reached its 1,000 ... and producers of honey, wild rice, maple syrup, cheese, and other gourmet products. ‘None of them think of themselves as a hero,’ motorist ...

Central to their platform and message is saving the state grain — wild rice, manoomin in the Ojibwe language, psin in Dakota.

The big picture: This year's Minnesota State Fair crop art contest ... barley, lentils, and wild rice. Wendy Brozic of ...