Where the Wild Rice Grows: USDA Celebrates Indigenous Agriculture, Businesses, and Peoples Agriculture is a key component of Native peoples' culture and heritage. Today more and more Tribal nations are looking to establish and expand access to global markets. For example, Minnesota's Red Lake, Inc. – wholly-owned by the Red Lake Nation – has begun to join USDA's agribusiness trade missions (ATM), seeking to establish new partnerships around the world. Twenty years ago, the Red Lake Nation began exporting cultivated wild rice and value-added rice products from their tribal members with the Red Lake Nation Foods brand. Fun fact: wild rice is actually the seeds of wetlands grass! Red Lake, Inc.'s wild rice is cultivated and grown in the tribal land's paddy fields. In the past three years, it has grown its farms to more than 1,000 acres with plans for annual growth. Throughout the month of November, we celebrate the many accomplishes and invaluable contributions of Native peoples and Tribal nations. Please click here to read more>>   Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please visit subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. This service is provided to you at no charge by USDA Foreign Agricultural Service. This email was sent to ooseims.archieves@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service · 1400 Independence Avenue, SW · Washington, DC 20250