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Jim Whitaker is a fifth-generation farmer, born and raised in McGehee, Arkansas. He, his brother and their families own and operate Trinity Farms and Whitaker Grain, where the Whitakers have been farming the same piece of land since 1890.
- Scaling Up Sustainable Rice Production
- A Longstanding Supplier Relationship Opens Doors For Sustainable Rice Practices
- A Slow But Steady Move Toward Sustainable Rice Production
In 2010, Whitaker attended the Rice Leadership Development Program, where he met a rice buyer for Mars, Incorporated. “We became great friends, and that started the journey of Whitaker Farms growing rice for the Ben’s Original brand,” Whitaker said. Today, Whitaker Farms produces over a third of the rice that Mars uses in Ben’s Original Ready-to-He...
Whitaker said the relationship with Mars is critical to the farm’s sustainable rice success story. “Rice is a unique market,” he told us. “It is highly controlled globally, and there isn’t a mechanism that allows farmers to trade in the market in the U.S. Our contract with Mars is a good relationship, because it gives me the ability to plan. I know...
Whitaker reflected on his early career, noting that the buzzwords he heard around sustainability planted a seed in his mind. “I could sense the industry was moving in this direction and there was a demand for it,” he said. “People want to do business with folks who are doing the right thing.” He now realizes that doing the right thing was good for ...
Feb 22, 2023 · MONTICELLO, AR -- Jim Whitaker, a rice farmer from McGehee, Arkansas, participated in a Farm Bill Listening Session hosted by Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, at the University of Arkansas at Monticello yesterday.
Whitaker Farms. Brothers, Sam and Jim Whitaker, along with their wives, Alicia and Leslie, run Whitaker Farms, which is a multi-crop farming operation that also partners in several Ag-related businesses.
Oct 25, 2023 · Fifth-generation rice farmer J... Rice is the world's largest food source — and it's also a massive emitter of methane gas, a key contributor to climate change.
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Jun 28, 2023 · For Jim Whitaker, proprietor of Whitaker Farms and a fifth-generation Arkansas rice farmer, the environmental challenges of conventional rice production were also economic concerns.
