On a quiet street in the heart of New Iberia, an old rice mill full of original German machinery, wide cypress planks and a few mill cats is still in operation — just as it's been, more or less, for ...

When I was young, broke and first started doing my grocery shopping, I fell in love with rice. It was cheap. It tasted good. It went with almost anything — and I could cook it 100 different ways. I ...

At a White House roundtable with farmers, a rice producer’s candid message stole the spotlight. Meet Meryl Kennedy, the rice producer who had a powerful message for President Trump last week.

Robert Trahan is co-owner of Falcon Rice Mill in Crowley. Trahan, a former CPA, returned to Crowley to buy the mill along with his sister, Christine, from his parents and other relatives in 2011. The ...

CROWLEY, La. (KLFY) — To keep the rice industry in Louisiana, the state’s largest rice mill is upgrading. Supreme Rice in Crowley is almost two years into a $20M expansion. The Supreme Rice Mill in ...

As they do in many a pot and on many a plate in South Louisiana, crawfish and rice have long co-existed on James Rice Farms in Prairie Ronde. In January, however, the farmers began operating Prairie ...

Pine Bluff-based rice mill co-owner PJ Haynie -- a fifth-generation farmer from the coastal plains of Virginia -- is working in Arkansas to promote sustainable farming and to advocate for underserved ...

As planning continues for redevelopment of Union Pier, much has been written lately about the site’s Bennett Rice Mill façade. While only one wall remains of that once-magnificent industrial structure ...

Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice fears that more American rice farmers will go out of business amid unfair foreign ...

CHARLESTON — A fragile reminder of old-world craftsmanship and a lucrative cash crop that helped propel the city into a wealthy global trading center in the 18th and 19th centuries has been spared ...