Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc. of El Campo and East Bernard Rice Marketing located in East Bernard are pleased to announce the formation of a joint rough rice marketing venture. This combined effort will provide producers with the broadest local, national, and international marketing exposure available to producers in Texas and will be open to any and all producers who might be interested. Timely information, market advice and recommendations, extensive record keeping, active marketing, and consultation regarding USDA programs, insurance programs, and the use of futures and options for hedging will be available to those producers who participate. In addition, newer and more aggressive use of the internet will be available to interested producers for use in showing rough rice for sale to buyers in the U.S. and overseas.

Rice Belt Warehouse and East Bernard Rice Marketing are organizations with many years of experience and deep roots in both Texas and the U.S. rice business. The full weight of this experience will be put into marketing this year's crop.

Producers who are interested in participating in this offering should contact either Dick Ottis or Fae Popp at 979-543-6221 or Fulton Drumgoole at 979-543-2726 of Rice Belt Warehouse, or Jay Davis of East Bernard Rice Marketing at 979-335-7591.