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The sun shines through the clouds over sn open green field of rice crops.

"The big groups like Masterfoods and Kellogg's are all out there trying to find low-emission rice."
A vibrant green rice crop.

"Rice ... has one of the worst environmental footprints in the world."
A man stands in front of a brown coloured field of rice crops.

A paper pack of white rice stand on a kitchen bench.

"It's an alternative for growers like me with low-lying paddocks susceptible to summer waterlogging [and] not suitable to soybeans,"
Mr Carusi said.
Big grey silo's containing rice line down a road at the Natural Rice facility.

"All we want is a fair go so our buyer, The Natural Rice Company, if the opportunity arises, can export our rice."
Dry rice field with a close up of a tractor wheel.

"We were pretty disappointed the decision was made to go against the NSW DPI's paper, but we're still waiting for the ABARES report,"
Mr Rogers said.
Rice straw bales lay on the field.

A man stand in front of a well-lit wooden house at dawn, smiling at the camera.

"You might know them from red wine or blueberries. They have very strong antioxidant functions, but they also improve the gut system and allow the black rice to be digested slower, which makes it a low-glycemic index rice,"
he said.

Key stories of the day for Australian primary producers, delivered each weekday afternoon.