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Louisiana rice industry donates 13 tons of rice to Baton Rouge Food Bank - Read more
Photo by Bruce Schultz, LSU AgCenter
Rice is loaded onto an 18-wheeler at the Falcon Rice Mill in Crowley, La., for a 13-ton donation to the Baton Rouge Regional Food Bank.
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Upcoming Events
Nov. 2-6, 2016 - Yellow Rails and Rice Festival: This five-day event mixes rice combine rides and rice mill tours with guided birding trips, bird banding workshops and social activities. For more information, visit
Yellow Rails and Rice Festival.
Dec. 7-9, 2016 - 2016 USA Rice Outlook Conference: Sheraton Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tenn. -
Event details
If you have an event you want included in the calendar, please send it to Rice Farming editor Vicky Boyd at vlboyd@onegrower.com.
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Rice Farming magazine editor Vicky Boyd visited Matthew Sligar, a rice farmer, videographer and producer of RiceFarningTV. During this year-long project, Sligar is chronicling a season of rice on his family's farm, and Boyd was a guest star in one of his recent episodes.
Jay Malone captured the beauty of rice harvest at Martin Ahrent & Sons Farms near Corning, Ark. Harvest always looks so different from the sky courtesy of drone video.
Contact Rice Farming editor Vicky Boyd if you have a video, photo or story to share.
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