Need help on finding wild rice for sale for planting

joseph van wie

joseph van wie

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Hi Guys I have been racking my brains on this computer trying to find wild rice to plant for ducks & geese, about all I can find is recipes to cook it.Here is the problem I hunt the hudson river, which most of you know is tidal, We have very little habitat {rice} on the river because the ice freezes at low tide, Tide comes in everything froze in ice rises with water & pulls wild rice & other vegetation out by it's roots & sends it south. I would like to start replenishing some every year on my own. All will be planted on public hunting which is all public { Federal waters}to the high tide mark. That was the answer to anyone thing I am doing this to bait my hunting spots.The rice will be planted in places where ducks want to be & where it is the least effected by the tide during winter seasons. Thanks For Your Help. Joe
 
First search for Zizania aquatica seeds not wild rice. It will get you where you want to be.

Second, and this should be before 'first' make 100% sure it is OK with the state and feds.

Third, if there was rice there and now there isn't then something changed in the habitat and until that is changed it won't matter how much seed you spread. The seeds drop in late summer/early fall and wild rice is an annual so it doesn't matter if ice pulls out dead plants.

Tim
 
Second, and this should be before 'first' make 100% sure it is OK with the state and feds.
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From your state website: Unsure? Contact the Department! If you don't know whether an activity requires a permit, contact your Division of Environmental Permits Regional office before beginning.

Your plan sounds innocent enough, but you are dealing with a tidal wetland area, and there could be a whole lot of red tape involved. Go here and navigate around the site: http://www.dec.ny.gov/24.html
 
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Make sure it is legal. In most states, planting non-native, or even native species, on public lands is illegal or restricted.
Also, I am not sure you wont run into the federal baiting laws with this since planting wild rice is not an acceptable agricultural process. In most cases, I believe that planting annual non-agricultural crops is not legal. BUt I may be wrong.
In the end, as others have noted, if this was truely wild rice habitat, it would be regenerating every year. I think you may be investing considerable time & money with little return. But if you have the time, money & its legal, give it a shot.
 
Thanks guys wild rice is natural to the state, especially the county I live in. Years ago local sportsman clubs & duck clubs used to by it & let the members plant it but everybody use to fight like a bunch of kids & plant it on private properly & not on the river where it was meant to go. Thats why I am doing this on my own. When me & my father did it 20 plus years age it worked really good but over time the rice disappears due to tide,ice,erosion, ships & barges with their suction. Thanks for help. Joe
 
I can't add much to what's above, except to say that I really doubt tides and ice are your problem. We have big tides and plenty of ice on the Kennebec, and rice is common throughout the freshwater tidal part of the estuary. There is also a lot of rice in non-tidal freshwater wetlands around here, though I think many of those stands were transplanted. I don't know of anyone who plants rice up here, though I'm sure a few people do, and the rice stands seem to be holding their own.

Here's a neat video showing rice harvest and processing from a stand that appears to be in Merrymeeting Bay. (Caution--brace yourself for some gratuitous bare-chested crunchiness . . . . . )

http://www.danielvitalis.com/2010/12/wild-ricing-in-maine/

A week or two after these guys were out there that stand was full of greenwings and mallards.

Teal stuffed with wild rice and crabapples--yummmm!
 
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