Wild rice is a type of grass. It is also called "water oat".
It can grow to be about 2.5 meters tall with five or six long thin leaves and long stems.
It grows in the shallow waters along the northern lakes, rivers and streams of Sask, Minnesota.
One of the major sources of wild rice is Grey Owl Foods, an organization owned by Saskatchewan First Nations . About 150 growers harvest the rice and sell it to Grey Owl Foods. The wild rice is processed in La Ronge and then packaged and sold. Most of the rice is sold to the United States, France and Germany.