Historic day – climate-smart rice revealed

Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 27, 2024

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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visits Great River Organic Milling in Fountain City, Wisconsin, to talk about ‘Climate-Smart’ agriculture. He holds the first climate-smart rice to hit the market, saying it’s ‘an historic day.’

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Attendees at the ‘Climate-Smart’ event are given samples to take home of the climate-friendly rice.

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Jeff Van Pevenage, president and CEO of Columbia Grain International, discusses the first climate-friendly rice available for consumers across America.

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Labels of two new climate-friendly rice products highlight the federal grant initiative.

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

FOUNTAIN CITY, Wis. – Tom Vilsack has been around the farming community for many years but he called the first product entering the market under Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities “an historic day.”

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, raise animals and crops on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he’s a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past-president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Email chardie1963@gmail.com with comments.

Weather report

A major weather system moved through the area late in the weekend and into Monday morning, April 17, after record-breaking warmth the week prior. Temperatures were in the 80s Tuesday through Thursday but plummeted into Sunday, with rain changing to snow in the afternoon.

Western into central Wisconsin was hit the hardest with more than a foot of very wet heavy snow along a north-south band. Some saw snow amounts to almost 20 inches. Tree damage, some power outages and numerous auto accidents impacted the area. – National Weather Service at La Crosse, Wisconsin.