• 2016 Rice Award Winners Recognized at USA Rice Outlook Conference

    Dec 13, 2016

    The USA Rice Outlook Conference is where the U.S. rice industry meets, to share information, network, and honor the accomplishments of industry leaders at the annual Rice Awards Luncheon. This year's awards ceremony celebrated three individuals for their contributions and achievements: Richard Fontenot, farmer of the year, Dr. Steve Linscombe, rice industry award winner and Gary Sebree, rice lifetime achievement award. Full story
  • Ducks Unlimited Snags Rice Industry’s Conservation Awards

    Dec 09, 2016

    Yesterday, the rice industry’s ever growing role in the conservation and sustainability sphere was spotlighted during the annual awards luncheon of this year’s USA Rice Outlook Conference. Full story
  • National Rice Month Scholarship Awarded to First Ever Video Contest Grand Prize Winner

    Dec 09, 2016

    Heaven McKinley, a senior at Irving High School in Grand Prairie, Texas, is the recipient of this year’s National Rice Month Scholarship grand prize for her video titled “Power Plants.” Full story
  • USA Rice Outlook Conference Kicks Off

    Dec 08, 2016

    The 2016 USA Rice Outlook Conference got underway here last night with an opening reception in the exhibit hall and a fundraising dinner for the USA Rice Political Action Committee. And today’s General Session opened with a host state welcome from Mississippi rice farmer Kirk Satterfield followed by keynote speakers Shelly Van Treek with Kellogg Company and former NASA Astronaut Michael Massimino. Full story
  • Rice Industry Floods Ducks Unlimited Waterfowling Heritage Center in Memphis

    Dec 07, 2016

    This week, members of the U.S. rice industry are poring over the exhibit cases of the Ducks Unlimited Waterfowling Heritage Center in the BassPro Shops at the Memphis Pyramid during the annual USA Rice Outlook Conference held here. Full story
  • Memphis Restaurants Proudly Serve U.S.-Grown Rice

    Dec 06, 2016

    Each year, USA Rice teams up with restaurants in the host city of the USA Rice Outlook Conference to promote local establishments that serve U.S.-grown rice. This year, members can again look forward to an expansive selection of highly-rated restaurants that will satisfy every palate and price point. Full story
  • Gumbo Catches on in Tokyo

    Dec 05, 2016

    Seventeen restaurants across the city are participating in a U.S. medium grain rice winter menu promotion that began last week and runs through February 2017. Internet advertising on a popular restaurant search website connects consumers with promotion partner restaurants. Full story
  • Innovation Stage Debuts at 2016 Outlook Conference

    Dec 02, 2016

    An exciting new addition to this year’s USA Rice Outlook Conference in Memphis next week is the “USA Rice Innovation Stage,” centrally-located in the conference Exhibit Hall. Find the USA Rice booth and the Innovation Stage will be right behind it. Full story
  • Calling All Farmers: NASS Surveys Need Your Input

    Dec 01, 2016

    USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently distributed two surveys to the majority of rice producers that have a big impact on farm safety net assistance levels. Full story
  • A Week in Washington with Colombia Film Crew includes U.S. Rice

    Nov 30, 2016

    A production crew with SaborUSA, a marketing campaign in Colombia that promotes U.S. food and beverages and American culture, spent a week traveling around the Washington, DC, area this fall filming segments for their popular TV cooking show “I ♥ SaborUSA.” Full story
  • USA Rice Lets the Trade do the Talking in the UK

    Nov 29, 2016

    USA Rice has launched a print media campaign here using the UK trade itself to endorse the virtues of U.S.-grown rice in the UK. The campaign features four branded and five generic spokespeople and covers all areas of the UK trade from wholesalers, importers, and millers, as well as key members of the restaurant trade to communicate the qualities of U.S. rice and build around the critical message of consistency. Full story
  • Castro’s Death, Trump’s Ascension Muddy the Waters for Access to Cuban Rice Market

    Nov 28, 2016

    On Friday, longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro passed away at the age of 90 after governing the island for nearly 50 years before his brother, Raúl, officially took the reins in 2008. Full story
  • Prevented Planting Update Good for Rice

    Nov 23, 2016

    Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced changes to the agency’s prevented planting rules. Full story
  • TRT World Rice Conference – Report from Thailand

    Nov 23, 2016

    More than 500 delegates attended the two-day World Rice Conference hosted by The Rice Trader (TRT) here last week that featured speakers representing the major rice exporting and consuming markets in the world. Full story
  • Sarah Moran, headshot USA Rice Highlights Public-Private Partnerships at Annual Export Development Workshop

    Nov 22, 2016

    The U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council (USAEDC) held their annual workshop here last week attended by commodity trade associations, state and regional trade groups, as well as marketing research companies, who gather to hear about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) priorities and operations. Full story
  • International Rice Leadership Class – Lessons from Great Britain & Spain

    Nov 21, 2016

    Earlier this month, the 2016 International Rice Leadership Class traveled to Europe to get an overview of the market for U.S. rice in the UK and to learn about the Spanish rice market. The class met with a diverse group of industry representatives including importers, exporters, and millers, and U.S. government officials working in London and Madrid. Full story
  • Jennifer-& Dylan-James-walk along retention pond on their AR rice farm Sustainable Agriculture Summit Serves Up Challenges and Opportunities

    Nov 18, 2016

    The annual Sustainable Agriculture Summit held here this week, in combination with Field to Market’s fall meetings brought together more than 500 attendees from across the U.S. agricultural supply chain. Participants ranged from farmers, to input manufacturers and suppliers, to processors and retailers. The livestock, row crop, and specialty crop sectors were all represented among the Summit’s various panels and breakout sessions where talk of partnerships, success stories, innovations, and new research studies contributed to the excitement that ran throughout the conference. Full story
  • IP.w-FAS-Funding,-Global-Trade-161117 Overseas Promotion Funding Announced for 2017

    Nov 17, 2016

    On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is awarding USA Rice nearly $2.5 million in MAP funds and over $1.6 in FMD funds. Full story
  • Deep Sea Divers standing on a dock Conservation and Sustainability - Beyond the Buzz

    Nov 16, 2016

    Marketers and trend watchers constantly tell us that today's customers are demanding more information about what they are eating and also how their food is being produced, and they use buzzwords like conservation and sustainability to push this agenda. At next month's USA Rice Outlook Conference in Memphis, attendees will be able to take a deep dive into this conversation with a two-part panel that will examine both practical, on-farm conservation practices and in-market sustainability trends. No matter where in the rice supply chain attendees are, they will not want to miss this valuable session that immediately follows the Annual Rice Awards Luncheon. Full story
  • FAS Predicts Continued Drop in Per Capita Consumption of Table Rice; Stagnant Use in Animal Feed

    Nov 15, 2016

    In its latest report, the Foreign Agricultural Service post in Tokyo reports that with continued decline in Japanese table rice consumption, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) began subsidizing farmers to shift production from table rice to other crops. For those farmers who have not reduced rice production, MAFF has had some success in encouraging increased production of rice for animal feed and use of paddy rice as silage. Full story

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