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Amy Beth Dowdy grew up in a close-knit farming family in Stoddard County, Missouri, in the southeast corner of the Bootheel. “Daddy had a few fields of rice and Mama always said that gave us something to argue about at the dinner table,” she says. Soon after graduating from Mississippi State University with an agronomy degree, Dowdy landed a job ... Read More »

As you thumb through this issue of Rice Farming magazine, you may notice nomination forms for two different recognition programs — the Rice Awards, now in its 28th year, and the third annual Rice Consultant of the Year. We don’t come up with the award recipients’ names ourselves — we rely on you, as their peers, to nominate them. The ... Read More »