Arkansas Plant Board reaffirms ban on Cheniere through 2008
The following is a report in today's USA Rice Federation Daily:
LITTLE ROCK, AR — The Arkansas State Plant Board met yesterday for a public hearing on the emergency action the board took on December 28 to ban the sale and planting of the Cheniere rice variety for 2007 and 2008.
Letters read during the meeting from the USA Rice Federation and Riceland Foods, Inc. encouraged the board to make its ban permanent.
“USA Rice considers the Plant Board’s actions as critically important to re-establishing the supply and marketability of U.S. rice,” USA Rice Federation Chairman Al Montna said in his letter. He also thanked the Arkansas Plant Board for its actions.
Similar testimony was also given by Brandy Carroll, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Bill Reed, Riceland
Foods, Inc., and Keith Glover, Producers Rice Mill.
After hearing the testimony the board voted unanimously to make the ban permanent for 2007-08.
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