USA Rice
WASHINGTON, DC – Dr. Steve Linscombe knows a thing or two about rice, having spent more than 35 years as the rice breeder at Louisiana State University (LSU), and now serving as the director of The Rice Foundation and the staff liaison of the USA Rice Marketability and Competitiveness Committee. He also knows podcasting and in the latest episode of The Rice Stuff, he assembles a top-notch panel to talk about rice breeding and rice quality.
Linscombe is joined by current LSU rice breeder, Dr. Adam Famoso; Dr. Maria Montiel, the rice breeder for HorizonAg; and Dr. Tim Walker, CEO of HorizonAg; to talk about U.S. grain quality and what they are doing to improve it.
The group opens with a discussion of whole and broken rice, both as a function of milling quality, and, by extension, of generating and protecting farmer value. They then move into cereal grain characteristics and the recent research project HorizonAg undertook with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), and other topics.
New episodes of The Rice Stuff are published twice each month and can be found on your favorite podcast services or www.TheRiceStuffPodcast.com.