Our family was established in August of 1987 when Kelly and Johnna Ornbaun married. This union brought forth two children, Lindsay, age 20 and Logan, age 18, both of whom are involved and an integral part of our farm. Our farm is a true model of a working family farm. Kelly is the primary rice grower and farm manager. He prepares the ground each spring, floods the fields with water, and then seeds the fields with rice. Kelly is also the head irrigator, managing the water levels and monitoring the vigor and growth of our rice. Like a father doting over his children, he faithfully checks our rice and water levels early each morning and every evening at dusk. At harvest Kelly attends to all the harvesting equipment making sure everything is running properly and then he mans a harvester monitoring closely the moisture and yields of our rice. Once harvest is complete and the rice is safely stored in the warehouse Kelly changes his focus to marketing. He strives to meet the needs of local, national and international customers.

Johnna takes care of the day to day business financials and the promotional marketing tasks. And as a supporting wife, lends a hand each evening by joining Kelly to check the progress and growth of the rice during the growing season. At harvest, Johnna is again at Kelly's side running a harvester for a speedy and smooth harvest season.

Lindsay, our daughter is a Junior at Texas Tech University studying Agricultural Communications and Business Marketing. Lindsay assists on the farm in any capacity needed when she makes brief trips home. Lindsay is currently our Texas representative, assisting with rice marketing in the southern states.

Logan, our son, is a Freshman at Butte College studying Agricultural Business and Animal Science. He has farmed organic rice for the past three years, as a Future Farmers of America (FFA) project. Logan has been instrumental in changing our farming practices to focus more on organic production. He has successfully made strides with us in converting portions of our rice farm to organic.

Although the unity of our family and farm began in 1987, farming has been present on both sides of our families for multiple generations. Our farming practices are a part of who we are and the reasons why we strongly support environmental stewardship. Since we were both raised in farming families; farming continues to be the focal point in our lives, the culture we truly love, and the heritage we will pass forward to future generations.