The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Army announced June 9 their intent to revise the definition of “waters of the United States” to better protect the nation’s water resources.
As described in an EPA declaration requesting remand...
The Arkansas Legislature recently passed a measure that sets strict definitions for a host of agricultural products, including rice, and requires food companies to accurately label their products. Gov. Asa Hutchison subsequently signed it into law, creating Act 501.
The...
For the past several years, we have been taking on rice pretenders — that’s food marketed as some new-fangled rice that contains no rice at all. And last month, pretenders were dealt a heavy blow, thanks to a common-sense...
Don't look for any type of U.S. Department of Agriculture market reports, ag statistics or supply and demand estimates as long as the government remains shut down.
That was the status update the USDA issued Dec. 28, 2018, one of...
It appears the Food and Drug Administration may begin enforcing a standard of identity that defines milk as a “lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows.”
This would mean the...
I recently sat in on one day of the San Joaquin County Farm Bureau's four-day Ag in the Classroom program. Now in its 32nd year, it is designed to educate the educators about the importance of ag in the...
Rice farmers at the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station field day on June 27 will hear about research being conducted to help them grow a better crop.
“This is an opportunity for our faculty members to tell...
Faced with what they call potentially devastating cuts to research and educational programs, Louisiana State University AgCenter leaders have called on constituents to contact their local lawmakers and educate them on the importance of these programs.
In a call-to-action letter...
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The rice pretender war is heating up this spring as USA Rice is registering formal complaints and offering recommended fixes to purveyors of what the trade group terms...
House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway (R-Texas) has introduced the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, House Resolution 2 — known informally as the 2018 Farm Bill.
In releasing the wide-sweeping legislative proposal April 12, Conaway said in a statement,...
Randy Jemison, retired Louisiana field representative for USA Rice, was honored recently by the Louisiana Rice Council and the Louisiana Rice Growers Association with a distinguished service award.
The award was presented at the annual joint meeting of the two...
A USA Rice trade delegation recently visited with Mexican customers to reassure them of their importance as a key market for U.S. rice.
Mexico has been the top market for U.S. rice both in volume and value for decades. We’ve...
The rice industry faces challenges ahead, but Ag Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue brings a Southern-oriented Farm Bill background.
By Betsy Ward
President and CEO
USA Rice
The Trump candidacy may well have changed campaigning forever. And the Trump Administration is, as promised, turning Washington on its...
USA Rice takes a look back at 50 years of ag advocacy in Washington, D.C.
As Rice Farming celebrates its golden anniversary, I’d like to offer congratulations and take a brief look at what the agriculture landscape in Washington, D.C.,...
Growers get behind the camera to shoot videos and help educate the public about rice.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
When third-generation rice producer Matthew Sligar went to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to study modern American literature, he had no...
