The Colleton County Rice Festival in Walterboro, South Carolina is an annual event featuring arts and crafts, food, fireworks, music and other entertainment.

Since it first arrived in 1685, rice helped create enormous wealth for the Lowcountry, and Colleton County was perfect for growing it. During the annual Rice Festival we celebrate the heritage of rice in this community and the beauty of the people and land that continue to bless this great country.

Come enjoy a fun-filled week of family activities in the warm Carolina sun. The Rice Festival has all the elements that make it fun for the entire family. Central to the festival is an arts and crafts area with a wide array of handcrafted items. The queen of the Rice Festival is crowned in a special pageant and she takes her rightful place of honor in the Rice Festival Parade as it meanders through downtown as a kickoff event to the festival. A 5K run, rated one of the top races in South Carolina, is another signature event for the festival. And what Carolina Festival is complete without a food court? Sprinkle in activities such as fireworks, music and other entertainment, and you’ve got an event sure to please the entire family.

Explore the streets of our county seat and experience a full schedule of family activities. Come see why Walterboro is the front porch of the Lowcountry.

Start your visit to the Rice Festival at the Welcome Center located just off I-95 at exit 53. There you will find plenty of tips about what to see and do before, during, and after the Rice Festival.

The singular ingredient rice has impacted and united people in the city of New York; one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. LiveRice presents a unique and impactful destination to showcase the influence that rice plays in our daily lives and communities such as culinary, Art, Life style, Texture and more. We invite you to visit our special exhibition and attend varied events at KOSAKA. Let us raise awareness together the importance of this singular ingredient: “RICE” as it nourishes people globally.

 

81st International Rice Festival/
Location: Downtown Crowley, La 70526

The 41st Annual Arkansas Rice Festival will be held Saturday, October 14, observing the rich heritage of rice farming in Arkansas and celebrating harvest. The festival is held annually the second weekend in October in Weiner, Arkansas in conjunction with National Rice Promotion Month.

The Texas Rice Festival is an annual harvest celebration held the first weekend of October. The festival was created in 1969 to honor rice farming, which is a major economic contribution in the region of Southeast Texas. It's held in the Winnie-Stowell Park in Winnie, Texas.

The Rice Festival (Fiera del Riso) has, for half a century, the greatest and most beloved Italian festival dedicated to risotto and rice. Here you will find one of the most popular dishes of the world Italian cuisine, prepared according to recipes that count decades of history. To prepare chefs from different regions of Italy and risotto cookers Masters cooking the risotto at the Fair with the same care and tradition with which you prepare the rest of the year at home for his family. Many of them behind hundreds of thousands of cooked rice. A unique and unparalleled, which is found in the flavors and scents of their exceptional dishes. And the fair is not just food! Parades in costumes, shows, sports and convention alive 26 days of celebration. The Rice Festival is also home to one of the most visited trade fairs in northern Italy, with 150 exhibitors from different regions of the boot.

The annual three day conference brings together professional and home bakers, maltsters, brewers, distillers, millers, farmers, wheat breeders, chefs, food writers, and entrepreneurs from around the world. Attendees choose among 40 workshops, panel discussions and demonstrations that explore a range of topics which may include matching wheat varieties to end products, the benefits of fresh milled flours, milling techniques, brewing and baking with non-commodity barleys, baking in a wood fired oven, starting a whole grain bakery on a budget, growing a regional grain network, the science of bread, haiku, food photography, and comparing flavors and functionalities in a variety of wheats and other grains.

All levels of baking ability are welcome! The individual registration fee is $450 and the corporate fee is $950 and includes dinner on Thursday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Friday, and breakfast and lunch on Saturday, as well as optional field trips Saturday afternoon.

We will email notification when registration for the 2017 conference opens.  If you would like to be informed you can sign up for emails here:  http://thebreadlab.wsu.edu/email-sign-up/

To become a Grain Gathering sponsor or for more information: wendy.hebb@wsu.edu.

The Rice Market & Technology Convention is an annual event which provides an unprecedented program full of world class economists, scientists and other industry members.  In addition, RMTC hosts a of breakout sessions, workshops and other case studies, in which all conference delegates will have a chance to engage in conversation with these world renowned experts.

The Colleton County Rice Festival in Walterboro, South Carolina is an annual event featuring arts and crafts, food, fireworks, music and other entertainment.

Since it first arrived in 1685, rice helped create enormous wealth for the Lowcountry, and Colleton County was perfect for growing it. During the annual Rice Festival we celebrate the heritage of rice in this community and the beauty of the people and land that continue to bless this great country.

The conference attendees to learn how they can grow food year-round, no matter what the climate, and how they can build markets for small farms. We hope that the conference will galvanize our collective efforts to create a new food system that fosters better health and more closely-knit communities.

The Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) will be holding its seventh annual Gathering concurrently with the conference and are planning many cultural activities to enhance the community spirit of our conference.

The 2016 World Rice Conference, the world's most premier conference focused solely on the rice industry, will be held from 16 to 18 November 2016, at the Le Meridien Chiang Mai hotel, located in beautiful Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The International Rice Festival held annually in Crowley is one of Louisiana's largest and also it's oldest Agricultural Festival. Since it's first festival on October 5th, 1937, over 7 million people have attended the annual event. 

The exhibition title, ‘맛:[MAT],’ literally meaning ‘taste’ in Korean, describes how the 맛:[MA:T] As It Is exhibition focuses exclusively on the notions of taste of Korea and the Korean attitude towards nature and man-made objects. Formulated from a designer’s perspective, the exhibition explores several dynamic aspects of ‘taste’ that relate not only to the consumption of food, but to the different styles of cooking and sharing food, the objects that surround food, and the physical and emotional ‘taste’ of the dining environment and experience as a whole. 

 

The Texas Rice Festival is an annual harvest celebration held the first weekend of October. The festival was created in 1969 to honor rice farming, which is a major economic contribution in the region of Southeast Texas. It's held in the Winnie-Stowell Park in Winnie, Texas.

North Carolina Rice Festival will be at Brunswick Riverwalk at Belville. With the permanent settlement of the Lower Cape Fear in the 1720s by a group of wealthy South Carolina planters, a new agricultural staple was introduced into North Carolina—rice. Rice by this time had proved to be the “golden grain” of South Carolina as tobacco had earlier become Virginia’s “golden leaf.” By 1700, rice was established as a major crop for the colonists. That year 300 tons of American rice, referred to as "Carolina Gold Rice," was shipped to England.

The Rice Fair (Fiera del Riso) of Isola della Scala, Italy the biggest national event of the industry, as evidenced by the numbers achieved: over 500,000 visitors.
It is an event that seeks to promote Rice Vialone Nano Veronese, only rice in Europe to have obtained the PGI “Protected Geographical Indication” by the European Union.

The Rice Market & Technology Convention is an annual event which provides an unprecedented program full of world class economists, scientists and other industry members.  In addition, RMTC hosts a of breakout sessions, workshops and other case studies, in which all conference delegates will have a chance to engage in conversation with these world renowned experts.

Since its inception in 1998, Cotton Incorporated has been the major sponsor along with the US Rice Producers Association of the Cotton and Rice Conservation Systems Conference.  This conference has been well attended over the years and has a very unique presentation style in the sessions.  The informative sessions pair a researcher with a producer (cotton and/or rice) for a discussion of conservation tillage topics.  This format provides an easy and inviting format of discussion and questions about specific practices and on-farm application of those practices.  www.nctd.net