Riceland Foods
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| Type | agricultural marketing cooperative |
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| Founded | 1921 |
| Headquarters | Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States |
| Products | Rice |
| Members | 9,000 |
| Employees | 1,900 |
| Website | www.riceland.com |
Riceland Foods, Inc., located in Stuttgart, Arkansas, U.S.A., is an agricultural marketing cooperative and the world's largest miller and marketer of rice. Riceland had sales of $1.3 billion in the fiscal year ending July 31, 2009.[1]
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,[2] Riceland is responsible for almost one-third of the U.S. rice crop.
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Riceland is the top beneficiary of US subsidy income EWG Database [1]
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