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Ag Business Development

Rice

Missouri ranks sixth in rice production in the nation. In 2000, 169,000 acres of rice were harvested in Missouri. Missouri rice producers are taking advantage of many value-added opportunities, including growing aromatic varieties of rice to export and sell here in the US. Other rice opportunities that are being developed include making particleboard from rice. Some entrepreneurs have captured an agritourism opportunity by charging duck hunters a fee to hunt ducks in flooded rice fields in the fall.

Resources:

• Specialty Rices (Agriculture Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• Missouri Rice (University of Missouri Outreach/Extension)
• Rice Straw Feedstock Supply Study for Colusa County California (Prepared for the Western Regional Biomass Energy Program by the Rice Straw Feedstock Joint Venture)
• Rice in Arkansas (University of Arkansas)
• Milling & Baking News
• Institute of Food Technologists
• Rice Farming
• “Key Issues for the Rice Industry: Research & Development Plan for the Rice Industry Program 1996-2001” (Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australia)
• GrainNet, News and Information for the Grain, Milling, Feed & Seed Industries
• The Structure of the U.S. Rice Milling Industry (Sage V Foods)
• Alternative Uses of Ricestraw, with searchable database of ricestraw uses (California Rice Promotion Board)
• International Rice Research Institute

Associations and Organizations:

• USA Rice Federation
• US Rice Producers Association
• California Rice Promotion Board

Examples of Rice Value-Added Businesses:

• Riceland Foods
• Martin Rice Company
• Lundberg Family Farms