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Joseph Eloi Broussard (December 16, 1866 – October 6, 1956) was a pioneer rice grower and miller in southeast Texas. He was born and grew up near Beaumont, Texas.In 1892 he converted a grist mill into the Beaumont Rice Mill, the first commercially successful rice mill in the state of Texas.
The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) is a state agency within the state of Texas, which is responsible for matters pertaining to agriculture, rural community affairs, and related matters. It is currently headed by Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller , a Republican, who was reelected to a 3rd term in 2022.
The Rice Belt of the United States includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, four southern U.S. states that grow a significant portion of the nation's rice crop. The name is in conformity with the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States , in which much of the nation's corn is grown.
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By 1903, Texas cultivated 234,000 acres of rice. This was second to only Louisiana in rice cultivation which produced 376,000 acres of this crop. At this point, the two states accounted for 99 percent of the rice grown in the United States. Farmers in Arkansas, during 1904, began that state's moved toward major efforts in rice growing.
RiceTec Inc. is a private American company based and headquartered in Alvin, Texas, [1] that develops and produces hybrid rice seed for the American and various international markets. RiceTec previously owned [ 2 ] the consumer brand name RiceSelect which markets Texmati brand rice in grocery stores throughout North America. [ 3 ]
More than 100 varieties of rice are commercially produced primarily in six states (Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and California) in the U.S. [90] According to estimates for the 2006 crop year, rice production in the U.S. is valued at $1.88 billion, approximately half of which is expected to be exported.
English: Texas' First Rice Mill, founded 1892 by J. E. Broussard, was developed after first commercial planting of rice in Texas in 1863. Earlier crops, due to dependence on rain, were dubbed “providence rice.” Broussard, pioneer grower and irrigator, was also co-founder of Rice Millers' Association.