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Murrami rice grower Peter Herrmann has succeeded Finley’s Rob Massina as president of the Ricegrowers Association of Australia.

John Fowler from Deniliquin has been made an honorary councillor of the Ricegrowers Association of Australia.

The NSW Government has announced a five year extension on its rice vesting arrangement with the NSW Rice Marketing Board.

Australia likely to run out of locally grown rice next month as drought, water allocations hit farmers FriFriday 11 updated FriFriday 11 DecDecember 2020 at 4:52am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 6 m (Nadia Daly) Print text only Cancel Fourth-generation rice farmer Barry Kirkup and his wife Gillian have found the past few years on the land harder than most. Key points: New South Wales rice growers say there will be no local...

Australia could run out of locally grown rice by January next year after a combination of droughts, low allocations of irrigation water and Covid-19 panic buying created a shortage.  According to forecasts from SunRice, who currently produce 98 per cent of Australian rice, all rice on supermarket shelves will be imported from early 2021. We will still have rice on the shelves but thats because we are an international network now and we can source rice from other countries, Riverina based rice...