The Arkansas Rice Growers Association (ARGA) has been working with ZaccariaUSA for two years to get the PAZ rice milling machine as the substitute for the technology that they use now to test milling yield. The PAZ machine uses the same inner workings as a modern rice mill and that, combined with a whiteness meter, will tell what level of whiteness each sample is really milled to.
ARGA has been in talks with the USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service to show that the PAZ is much more capable of giving a fair milling yield than the old technology. ZaccariaUSA has provided APHIS with a 500 gram PAZ machine to test and compare to the current standard. ARGA, with the generous support of ZaccariaUSA, has made two PAZ rice sample machines available for farmers to test their rice milling yield in Arkansas. Farmers Supply Association in Harrisburg has one PAZ and a whiteness meter. The second machine is at Integrity Grain’s Brinkley location (the old Turner Grain grain bins).
The PAZ lab machine is gaining huge traction and is turning a lot of heads. ZaccariaUSA has already installed over 30 of these machines for farmers around the country. Other locations that are currently using the PAZ machine to test rice samples include The University of Arkansas, Texas A&M Univeristy, LSU, Mississippi State University, and South East Missouri State University. Hopefully, a new standard for testing milling yield is right around the corner.
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