My Turn

Being born and raised in the southwest Louisiana coastal prairie town of Gueydan was an ideal environment for someone who would spend his career in the region’s rice industry. Gueydan is a small community in western Vermilion Parish that...

My journey into agriculture, particularly rice in the Mid-South, is anything but conventional. I grew up in the heart of Dallas, Texas. That’s not to say I didn’t have a connection to agriculture. Like a lot of folks post...

I grew up in the small community of McGehee on our family farm. I was 10 years old when the historic 1980 drought happened, and I can remember my dad trying desperately to irrigate what we could but losing most of...

Growing up across three east Arkansas counties, St. Francis, Monroe, and Arkansas, significantly shaped who I am. As a little girl, I watched my father have a deep appreciation of the outdoors, and anything that involved rice farming. Our...

My first thoughts of rice being grown in Texas was in agronomy class at Texas Tech when Dr. Clark Harvey told the class about rice in the state. Raised on the High Plains near Lubbock, I could not imagine...

It was shiny and red, with a bright blue seat and the number 70 painted on it. The Honda name was on the side of the gas tank. I will never forget the day my daddy unloaded my 3-wheeler....