Riceland Foods

Riceland Foods

Infobox Co-operative
company_name = Riceland Foods
company_
company_type = agricultural marketing cooperative
foundation = 1921
location = Stuttgart, Arkansas
key_people =
area_served =
members = 9,000
industry =
products = rice
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
num_employees = 1,900
parent =
subsid =
homepage = http://www.riceland.com/
footnotes =

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 [ [http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/2005/d/pages/stuttgart.html Rice Industry Stands Tall in Stuttgart, October 2005] ] , Riceland is responsible for almost one-third of the U.S. rice crop.

References

External links

* [http://www.riceland.com/ Official website]

Riceland is the top beneficiary of US subsidy income EWG Database [http://farm.ewg.org/farm/top_recips.php?fips=00000&progcode=total&yr=2006]


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