Read more: Meryl Kennedy’s story begins in a truck, riding with her father around her family’s rice farm as a child growing up in northeast Louisiana.
Meryl Kennedy tosses recently harvested rice into the air in a Kennedy Rice Mill warehouse in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Calcium Hydroxide Plant
The Kennedy Rice Mill processing plant in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice stands in front of a wall of totes holding various types of rice, some earmarked for sushi grade, in a Kennedy Rice Mill warehouse at a mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Kennedy Rice Mill staff walk through a warehouse where giant bags of rice are loaded onto freight trains and trucks in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Kennedy Rice Mill load giant bags of rice onto trucks and trains in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Downtown Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice stands in front of a pile of raw rice in a Kennedy Rice Mill warehouse in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Kennedy Rice Mill staff walk through a warehouse where giant bags of rice are loaded onto freight trains and trucks in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice stands in the doorway at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice inside her office near the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Small samples of rice saved from the various regions where it was grown on a shelf inside the mill at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy puts on a coat as she gets ready to walk through the Kennedy Rice Mill processing plant in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
The Kennedy Rice Mill processing plant in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Rice being processed at a mill owned at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Bagging rice at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy, top right, looks out over Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice checks on rice being processed at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Rice being processed at a mill owned at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy holds raw rice inside a Kennedy Rice Mill warehouses in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
A mound of raw rice inside Kennedy Rice Mill warehouse in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Downtown Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Kennedy Rice Mill staff meet inside a processing plant in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice inside her office near the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
Meryl Kennedy of 4Sisters Rice checks on giant totes full of rice at the Kennedy Rice Mill in Mer Rouge Louisiana on Wednesday, November 9, 2022. (Staff photo by Chris Granger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
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