USA Rice Daily

Over 100 attendees attended the 2015 Horizon Ag Field Day yesterday at Mark Wimpy Farms. The event included a look at current and new Clearfield varieties as well as an update on the harvest in Louisiana.

USA Rice staff traveled to Arkansas this week to participate in rice industry meetings in eastern Arkansas. USA Rice Government Affairs Vice President Ben Mosely attended both meetings and gave updates on USA Rice’s work on key industry issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), market access to China, Waters of the United States (WOTUS), and recent tenders in Iraq. Mosely also talked about USA Rice efforts to educate newly elected members of Congress about issues important to the U.S. rice industry.

Hundreds of people came out for the fifth annual Arkansas Rice Expo here last week to celebrate the successes of the farmers who make agriculture the state’s largest industry.

On August 10, USA Rice and Ducks Unlimited (DU) will officially kick off implementation of their Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) joint project, “Sustaining the Future of Rice”, that was announced in January 2015.

This week USA Rice’s Marvin Lehrer was the principal speaker at the annual RiceTec appreciation dinner held here at the Grand Prairie Center. Nearly ninety local rice farmers attended the event to hear about the opportunities and challenges in moving rice to the key nearby markets of Mexico, Cuba, Central America, and Colombia.