by Gary Billups | May 11, 2017 | Marketing Your Rice, Rice Milling Equipment
In our series about rice farmers becoming rice millers, we focus on the rice milling equipment needed to produce a high quality brown or white rice. It’s important to note that some of this machinery is optional while it is impossible to mill rice without...
by Gary Billups | Apr 26, 2017 | Rice Farmer, Rice Milling Equipment, ZaccariaUSA
What is the difference between a rice farmer and a rice miller? The simplest answer to that question is easy – a rice farmer grows rice and the other mills rice. But what does it look like when the rice farmer is also the rice miller? That’s a question...
by Gary Billups | Oct 5, 2016 | Rice Milling Equipment, Technical, Water Polisher, Wednesday Spotlight
Why should a water polisher be installed in a rice production line? It’s true that not every production line has a water polisher installed. I’ve seen some of the simplest production lines without a water polisher all the way up to sophisticated lines...
by Gary Billups | Sep 15, 2016 | Marketing Your Rice, Rice Milling Equipment
ZaccariaUSA would like to share photos of this ZX-6 rice milling system in Louisiana at James Farms. This milling installation has a Zaccaria pre-cleaner, a ZX-6 husking machine, an indented cylinder, as well as a small packaging line that can handle between 1-10...
by Gary Billups | Sep 9, 2016 | Rice Milling Equipment, Zaccaria Installations
Why a blog post on dust control systems when you are looking for information on rice milling equipment? In the extensive traveling that we do to farms across the country, we’ve seen just about every possibility that you can imagine; piping and spouting made out...
by Gary Billups | Sep 7, 2016 | Rice Milling Equipment
Welcome to the second part of On Farm Rice Milling Basics- Part 2. For those of you who missed the first article, you can get to it by clicking Farm Milling Basics Part 1. If you recall, in the first article we spoke about Pre-Cleaning, the use of magnets, and...
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