This collection contains items about rice, rice growing, rice milling, etc. The bulk of the material are publications from various sources and organizations, especially the Rice Millers' Association and the Rice Council. There are also materials from Joel L. Fletcher, Jr.’s 1963 trip investigating rice agriculture in the Italian Po Valley for the United States Department of Agriculture, and Thomas J. Arceneaux’s trip to Madagascar in 1951.

Most materials in this collection have been donated to UAAMC as single items. Many publications were collected by Thomas J. Arceneaux, Dean of the College of Agriculture at SLI/USL (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette).