Over the course of many centuries, humans have domesticated and improved
white rice, wheat, corn, and many other crops. It has only been in the
last half of the twentieth century that wild rice started on the road to
domestication. The challenges were great, but exciting, in the
development of this newly cultivated crop. This remarkable story of the
transformation of wild rice by growers, entrepreneurs, and scientists
makes for compelling reading. Read this book with a nostalgic sense of
history as well as seeing the story of how a new field crop was and can
be developed.