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Southwest Louisiana producer named Rice Festival’s Rice Farmer of the Year

Kent Brown, a fourth-generation rice grower from Hathaway north of Jennings, Louisiana, was named the International Rice Festival's 2017 Rice Farmer of the Year. In the late 1800s, Brown’s ancestors, who were Iowa wheat farmers, moved during the historical migration...

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