U S Rice Producers Association formed Bill Goldsmith, Interim Administrator, U S Rice Producers Association Leaders of the Rice Council organizations and the Rice Producers Legislative Groups of Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas organizes the U S Rice Producers Association at a meeting in Houston October 30. The new organization will focus on rice producer interests and include programs of market development for all types and forms of rice and governmental affairs and policy. The organizing board of directors has adopted an association framework that will include a central board of directors named by the state boards of the Rice Councils and Rice Producers Legislative Groups.
Plans call for the hiring of an executive officer and the opening of an office in the Houston area.
The U S Rice Producers Association will put the interests and aims of the U.S. rice producers first. Our objective is to efficiently use our check-off and voluntary resources to get results that will benefit rice farmers equally. It will be absolutely critical that we get optimum returns from every dollar. We did it by becoming involved and through careful coordination between states. We had the involvement and input from a significant producer segment in each of the organizations in the three states.