Riceland Foods

Arkansas was destined to become a major rice producer for American and foreign markets. And grower-members of Riceland Foods played significant role in Arkansas' achievement. Yet at the outset of their separate histories, neither Arkansas nor Riceland Foods looked promising in their appointed roles as rice suppliers to the world.

Rice was not native to Arkansas in 1541 when Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer conquistador, first pushed across the Mississippi River to Sunflower Landing, 20 miles south of present-day Helena. He claimed the Arkansas Territory for the King of Spain, but the first permanent settlement, apart from American Indians, did not exist until a century and a half later. In 1686, the French soldier of fortune.

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