or wild rice. While it is now paddy farmed in parts of California and Minnesota, the truly wild rice or “lake rice” is still available. This is thanks in large part to preservation and ...

Federal regulators have elevated a recall involving 27,600 bags of wild rice from a Northern California farm distributed to seven states due to concerns that the product may contain a foreign ...

These days, most of the wild rice available in the supermarket is specially cultivated in Minnesota and California. Beyond ...

A recent report from the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences shows how flooding California rice fields can support a wide range of wildlife. The report was prepared for the California Rice ...

In addition to adding $1 billion of economic value and up to 7,500 jobs for California’s Sacramento Valley, the state's rice fields act as surrogate wetlands for many birds and other wildlife. (Gary ...

“In the absence of natural wetlands, rice has become essential surrogate habitat for an incredible diversity of California wildlife,” said report co-editor Daniel Karp, a UC Davis professor in ...