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Nov 5, 2024 | 
lafarmbureaunews.com | Don Molino |Steve Linscombe |USA Rice
By Steve Linscombe, USA Rice Members of this year's class are alumni from previous Rice Leadership Development classes and include: Jonathan Hobbs, New Orleans, LA; Mike Martin, Bernie, MO; Christian Richard, Kaplan, LA; Tim Walker, Memphis, TN; and Fred Zaunbrecher, Duson, LA. Read More
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
lafarmbureaunews.com | Megan R. Mahoney |USA Rice |Steve Linscombe |Josh Hankins
By Steve Linscombe, USA Rice Members of this year's class are alumni from previous Rice Leadership Development classes and include: Jonathan Hobbs, New Orleans, LA; Mike Martin, Bernie, MO; Christian Richard, Kaplan, LA; Tim Walker, Memphis, TN; and Fred Zaunbrecher, Duson, LA. Read More
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
agri-pulse.com | Steve Linscombe
Over the past two years, consumers have felt whiplash from volatile grain prices, as powerful players in the global markets cut off trade. It began with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which disrupted exports of products including wheat and fertilizer from two of the world’s biggest suppliers.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
lafarmbureaunews.com | Steve Linscombe
By Steve LinscombeUSA RiceRICE COUNTRY, USA – Rice harvest is wrapping up in southwest Louisiana and west of Houston in Texas. Ideal weather facilitated a rapid rice harvest in the region, with little or no rainfall interfering with operations since harvest began in mid-July. This is just the opposite of last year, when it seemed to rain every day as soon as combines hit the fields.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice
MOUNTAIN HOME, TX – It’s been a busy week for the rice industry in Louisiana and Texas, with field days and meetings wrapping up just in time for growers to get back in the field. In Louisiana, that means harvesting fields of the varieties Avant, DG263L and PVL03. On Monday afternoon, growers gathered for a harvest mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Eunice. Rice farmer Michael Fruge helped organize the event, which attracted a huge crowd preparing for the long work weeks ahead.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice
MOUNTAIN HOME, TX – Rice harvest is already under way in the Everglades Agricultural Area of southern Florida and will soon begin in southwest Louisiana and in Texas, west of Houston. Florida Crystals in western Palm Beach County began harvest late last week with their medium grain variety Titan. While it is too early to gauge the crop as yet, yields appear promising. Louisiana rice farmers are cautiously optimistic on the yield and quality potential of this season’s crop.
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May 17, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice |Louisiana Truth |USDA Opens Full-Time
Rice research is just one aspect of The Rice Foundation mission (USA Rice) WASHINGTON, DC – The Association for the Administration of Rice Quotas, Inc. (AARQ) recently donated $250,000 to The Rice Foundation, a 501c(3) organization that represents all segments of the U.S. rice industry with a mission to further the well-being of its members and ensure the long-term sustainability and future competitiveness of U.S. rice.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice |USDA Announces Steps |Arkansas Agriculture Hall
LITTLE ROCK, AR – Chris Isbell, who was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame last week, has been contributing to agriculture since he was a child. He was born and raised on a rice farm in England, Arkansas, where his father, Leroy Isbell, pioneered Zero Grade technology in Arkansas in the late 60s, and since that time, the spirit of innovation has been alive and well at Isbell Farms.
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Feb 2, 2023 | 
agfax.com | Steve Linscombe |USA Rice |Wind farms
Josh Hankins (second from left) mans the USA Rice booth BATON ROUGE, LA – The 26th Annual Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference (Con-Till) was held here this week. The conference first convened in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1998. Initially the meeting focused on conservation related to rice and cotton production but has expanded to include varied production topics while adding corn, soybeans, irrigation, precision ag, and regenerative ag presentations.
