The Advocate

Acadiana rice mill launches $6 million renovation to increase efficiency, add jobs

Falcon Rice Mill in Crowley has launched a $6 million renovation that will increase efficiency and add 16 jobs. The project, much of which is will launch next month, will include purchasing and ...
AgWeb

Hazard or Hysteria? Farmers Trigger Suburban Uproar

When a Tennessee farming family decided to build a small rice mill and provide a local food source, they ran headlong into suburban uproar. Social media posts portrayed the farmers as “evil, cruel, ...
CNN

Their ancestors were enslaved and forced to work in the fields. Now, one family hopes to help alleviate hunger abroad by drawing from generations of farming knowledge

Everyday when PJ Haynie wakes up, he prays to God for two things. “As farmers, we go out and as they say, we plant and pray,” Haynie said. “We plant a crop … we pray for rain; we pray for prices.” ...
Post and Courier

West Point Rice Mill is still in tact, surviving fires, wars, Hurricane Hugo and a major earthquake

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 ...