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A rice by any other name...

by Laine Kaplan-Levenson
May 23, 2019
Lawmakers in the state of Louisiana are debating when food products can be called “rice.”
Jeff Durand on his rice farm in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
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Passing on a tradition of wild rice harvest in northern Minnesota

by Dan Kraker
Oct 18, 2017
Native Americans migrated to Minnesota centuries ago “where food grew on the water,” 500 years later, the wild rice harvest tradition is still being passed on.
Bruce Martineau poles his father Francis Martineau to the shore of Deadfish Lake after harvesting wild rice on the Fond du Lac reservation on Sept. 5, 2017.
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Hungry and broke? We've got a cookbook for you, millennials

by Adriene Hill , Bridget Bodnar and Sean McHenry
Oct 12, 2017
Miranda Berman and Gabi Moskowitz want to hold your hand in the kitchen.
The "Someday I'll Be Rich Rice and Beans" from a new cookbook by Gabi Moskowitz and Miranda Berman.
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U.S. rice growers want to get in on Cuba

by Tracey Samuelson
Jul 2, 2015
The increased demand would help farmers, who have seen prices fall.
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Drought puts California rice in a sticky situation

by Amy Quinton
Apr 30, 2014
California grows almost all medium grain rice in the U.S. And prices are up.
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FDA studies arsenic found in rice products

by Sarah Gardner
Sep 19, 2012
Arsenic occurs naturally in soil, but also comes from manure and pesticides. Rice plants absorb higher levels of arsenic than other crops.
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Soybean prices on the rise, could impact other food sources

by David Brancaccio
Apr 30, 2012
The cost of soybeans is now hitting levels not seen just before the 2008 food crisis, and when this happens farmers switch to soybeans and away from rice -- that crucial staple of diets in so many parts of the world.
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