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Dwight Roberts
Dennis DeLaughter
Steve Linscombe
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Allison Romick
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Leandro Pasqualli
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Symphony III & IV
Qi Ren Chu
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Danilo Vera
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Claudia Militz
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Stuart Hoetger
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Anna McClung
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Luis Felipe Leidens
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Sandra Metheny
Networking Break
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Mark Pousson
Walter Cardozo & Juan Pablo Berasategui
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Panel: Thomas Wynn, Tiago Barata
Alice Gomez
Dwight Roberts
Anna McClung
Biographical Sketch Dr. Anna McClung is the Center Director for the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, located in Stuttgart, Arkansas. The Center has the largest concentration of rice researchers in the USDA/ARS, having 35 employees, including ten scientists, which are focused…
Cláudia Militz da Costa
Technical Consultant Technical Consultant of Brazilian Rice, ABIARROZ and industries, Cláudia Militz da Costa is Chemical Engineering by the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), has PhD and Master degree in Food Science and Technology, respectively from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL) and UFSM. She also holds MBA in…
Dennis R. DeLaughter
Dennis R. DeLaughter, a professional farm manager, investment advisor and commodity broker, operated and managed over 5000 acres of rice, corn and wheat along the Texas gulf coast, southwest of Houston for over 40 years. He was a licensed floor trader on the Chicago Board of Trade and a frequent…
Dr. Qi Ren Chu
Global perspective of Hybrid Rice Dr. Chu serves as Consultant to RiceTec AG CEO, taking the lead of several projects in China. Dr. Chu also has work experience in the US Seed Industry as Senior Director and China Coordinator in the Line Development Department, and Traits and Technology Department at…
Juan Pablo Berasategui
Commercial Manager Rice Juan Pablo is an Agronomist, graduating from the university of Buenos Aires. He worked for a brokerage firm for grains from 2000 until 2008, before moving to Ascot Commodities as a rice trader in 2009. He then worked as a rice trader for South/Latin America at Louis…
Dr. Steve Linscombe
Steve Linscombe received his Ph.D. in Agronomy, Plant Breeding & Genetics in 1982 from Mississippi State University and his M.S. in Agronomy in 1979 and his B.S. in Animal Science in 1976, both from Louisiana State University. Dr. Linscombe is the Director of the Rice Research Station (Dec. 2003 –…
Luiz Felipe Leidens
Product Marketing at Kepler Weber Company Luiz Felipe Leidens has Master's Degree in Projects and Manufacturing Processes from UPF (Passo Fundo, Brazil) and bachelor degree in Agribusiness Production Engineering from FACIAP (Cascavel, Brazil). His Master´s dissertation presented a numerical simulation and stress experimental measurement, for the external structure of high…
Norris Bond
Norris Bond graduated in 1970 from The University of Southwestern Louisiana, with high distinction with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Norris was initially employed as a design engineer by Baker Oil Tools of Houston, Texas, where he, was responsible for the design and prototype testing of various types…
Mo Way
Professor of Entomology Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center Dr. Mo Way is a Professor of Entomology for Texas A&M University. For the past 31 years he has worked at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Beaumont developing and implementing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs for insects…
Walter Cardozo
Walter Cardozo, graduated as Engineer Agronomist from Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Corrientes, Argentina in 1992. He made a Specialization in Irrigated Rice Seed Production in Universidad de Agronomía ELISEU. MACIEL, Pelotas Brazil. During the past 25 years has been dedicated to the development and management of integrated projects of rice,…
Leanardo Pasqualli, RiceTec
Director, Business Development Leandro is an Agronomist with a master’s degree in seed technology from Santa Maria Federal University and an MBA in Marketing from Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing - ESPM of Porto Alegre. Leandro has been part of the RiceTec team since 2004 and he has several positions…
Mark Pousson
Mark Pousson, an active rice farmer from Welsh, Louisiana, a town located in the southwest part of the state. Mr. Pousson attended McNeese State University and is currently serving as a member on the Board of Directors for the US Rice Producers Association and the Louisiana Independent Rice Producers Association.…
Dr. Danilo Vera Coello
Dr. Danilo Vera Coello, he earned his Master Degree In epidemiology comparative in the development of the Black Sigatoka on banana and plantain in 2003 at Universidad Federal de Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil and his Ph. D On the role of the dangerous condition in the epidemiology of the eyespot…