On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:30:33 -0800, Steve Jackson wrote:

> "Craig Bergren" > wrote in message
> news >
>> Bud is brewed with rice, Miller with corn. This makes Miller the more
>> American of the two because corn comes from America while rice is an
>> Asian import.
>
> Whatever. I don't know where Bud's rice comes from, but most of the rice
> consumed in America comes from California.

More rice is grown in Arkansas than in any other state, by a long shot.
Rice, is not indigenous to the U.S. as is corn. Rice comes from Thailand,
or thereabouts (at least according to the rice industry).
http://www.riceweb.org/History.htm

If these assumptions are correct, then domestication most likely took
place in the area of the Korat or in some sheltered basin area of northern
Thailand, in one of the longitudinal valleys of Myanmar's Shan Upland, in
southwestern China, or in Assam.

or more recently from Madagascar (Africa):
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/...w/RR/afr1.html

The Texas rice industry owes its origins to the introduction of
rice (Oryza sativa) seed from Madagascar to the Carolina colonies about
1685.

http://www.riceweb.org/countries/usa.htm

Rice in the US is produced in three principal areas: the Grand Prairie and
Mississippi River Delta of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri
from 32° to 36° N latitude; the Gulf Coast of Florida, Louisiana, and
Texas from 27° to 31° N latitude; and the Sacramento Valley of
California from 38° to 40° N latitude.

Arkansas produces more rice than any other state with almost 3 times the
acreage of California.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications...field/rcs-bby/

Arkansas--the largest rice growing State in the United States--harvested
area is projected at 1.45 million acres... At 495,000 acres, harvested
area in California is down 33,000 acres ...