Randall Jones Interview:INITIATIVES IN 2015 INCLUDE RICE STUDIO SOFTWARE, IMPLEMENTATION OF UGMA

摘要

What major research and technology initiatives are underway at FGIS?FGIS has developed software, the USDA Rice Studio, for use with consumer-grade photo scanners to measure the percentage of broken kernels in milled rice quickly and accurately.When rough rice is graded in accordance with USDA's Rice Grading Standards, the percentage of broken kernels within a sample is determined by a trained grader's visual inspection. While mechanical sizing routinely is used instead of visual inspection for separating while and broken rice pieces at various points of the rice marketing process, mechanical sizing doesn't account for inherent differences in rice kernel size and, thus, cannot provide an accurate estimate of the percentage of broken kernels.