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Look inside for dairy recipes VOL. 100, No. 13 www.LDAF.la.gov June 22, 2017 Riceland Crawfish Owner Dexter Guillory takes pride in producing high quality Riceland Crawfish recently built a cold storage facility down the road from the products for his customers processing plant. By Veronica Mosgrove As crawfish season winds down, a visit to processing 150 stores in and around Louisiana. They sell whole plant Riceland Crawfish in Eunice indicates there’s boiled seasoned crawfish and crawfish tail meat to nothing slow about the crawfish industry. “The thousands of stores belonging to a major retailer. They process from cooking to packaging crawfish tails is also process alligator meat which they sell to more timed and food safety is of utmost importance,” said than 600 stores throughout the U.S. Food Safety Auditor Dwight Landreneau. “Our major retailers such as Wal-Mart demand For Riceland Crawfish, it’s not about being one of quality products. They’ve let us know – you must be the biggest processing plants, it is about having a certified and sustainable,” said Guillory. quality product that the consumer can trust. “I need “Our packaging promoting Louisiana is going to make sure the next generation can maintain and across the country. If you put trash in it, it’s a poor expand this business by making it the best it can be,” reflection on us,” added Landreneau. said owner Dexter Guillory. The crawfish get weighed, washed and graded where Guillory, a former crawfisherman, started the it is determined what is sold live and what is processed. processing business in 1984. Most of his crawfish The crawfish are then cooked and packaged. Seasonal come from ponds but some come from the Atchafalaya workers (H2B) are required to sanitize the equipment Basin. Riceland Crawfish gets all of its crawfish from between each batch of crawfish that is cooked. a list of certified crawfish harvesters. All seasoning used and sold is also created in Guillory says having certain quality control Louisiana. It’s a family business that continues to certifications is important to him. Their certifications grow as standards are maintained at a high level. include Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point “We’re now branching into the cold storage business (HACCP) and Safe Quality Food (SQF). Riceland mainly because we are expanding,” said Guillory. Crawfish is the only processing plant that holds these Because of the volume, Riceland Crawfish recently two certifications in the United States. built a cold storage facility down the road from the Landreneau added, “Our safety procedures include processing plant. “This allows us to work even more knowing where the food comes from, how the raw efficiently because we can move product out quickly product is handled and how the seasoning is handled. to get Louisiana crawfish and alligator into commerce. We document everything. It’s all for the sustainability This cold storage facility in Eunice also allows other of the industry.” businesses in our area to have access to a facility of Riceland Crawfish processes between 10-15 million this type,” said Guillory. pounds of crawfish per year. They sell live crawfish to Page 2 Market Bulletin June 22, 2017 Louisiana Agriculture & Forestry Today Strain attends White House Infrastructure Summit Louisiana Department of moves America forward,” said and ports are an essential lifeline Departments of Agriculture Agriculture and Forestry Strain. which move eighty-five percent (NASDA) President and South Commissioner Mike Strain, Strain said infrastructure topics of grains destined for the global Carolina Commissioner of D.V.M., said it was a tremendous included: reducing permitting time marketplace. 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