Riceland Foods

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Riceland Foods, located in Stuttgart, Arkansas, U.S.A., is an agricultural marketing cooperative and the world's largest miller and marketer of rice.

The company was founded in 1921. It has 1900 employees who store, transport, process, and market rice, soybeans, and wheat produced by its 9,000 members who are farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas.

According to a Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis article, Riceland is responsible for almost one-third of the U.S. rice crop.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Rice Industry Stands Tall in Stuttgart, an October 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis article