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Conrad Rice Mill Inc & Konriko Company Store KONRIKO Company Store Offering a wide range of products manufactured by CONRAD RICE MILL INC as well as Louisiana products and other souvenir items.
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We offer a guided tour of the mill that includes a 20 minute slide presentation. We accept walk-ins for our tours and if you are a group of 20 or more call us and schedule a tour. We always have one of our rice mixes cooked and fresh coffee brewed to sample. Our sauces and seasonings are always available to sample.

Early voting began this week here in Iberia Parish. I went yesterday to vote and was pleasantly surprised by how many vo...
10/23/2026

Early voting began this week here in Iberia Parish. I went yesterday to vote and was pleasantly surprised by how many voters were in the line ahead of me.
Voting is always an important thing to do. A great deal of blood and sacrifice has been made for us to have this privilege. Hope you can find the time to go vote either early or on November 3rd.
While waiting to vote I ran into quite a few old friends waiting to vote, too. In a small town like New Iberia it is hard to go about anywhere and not run into folks you know. That is another aspect about living in a smaller town that appeals to me.
New Iberia has a lot going on as we have a very active Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce is their full name. If you plan on visiting us you might want to go to their website to see what is happening in our area.
No matter the date we are giving tours of our historic old rice mill, the oldest operating rice mill in America. The tours begin in our KONRIKO Co Store at 309 Ann St here in town. We show a very entertaining and historically correct video on the Cajun Culture and dwell a bit on the rice industry, how rice is planted, etc. Then we walk you over to the old mill itself to see how we actually make brown rice into white rice.
When you get back to the KONRIKO Co Store you will enjoy our spread of prepared Wild Pecan rice to try along with our many different KONRIKO spice blends. My favorite is a few dabs of Bay Island Secret Sauce on top of some Wild Pecan rice....very tasty indeed.
The tour takes about 40 minutes plus whatever time you spend shopping our unique little store. Store and tour hours are Monday-Saturday 9am to 5pm, year round.
Hope to see you soon !!

The sound coming from the Mill was a low rumble that was hard at first to hear, but it kept building in volume until you...
10/22/2026

The sound coming from the Mill was a low rumble that was hard at first to hear, but it kept building in volume until you could barely hear yourself or talk to someone standing next to you.
When the rice began to enter the elevator it added the unique sound of rain falling on a hard surface.
The Mill has come alive !
That is the sound we entered yesterday when we ran the old Rice Mill and finished off milling our Wild Pecan rice that we have in inventory for the upcoming Holiday season.
Starting up the Mill is a slow process. First you crank up the electric motors and get the conveyors spinning. Next you start up the elevators that will bring the rice from the ground floor up to the top, 3rd, floor.
Once all the machinery is spinning up to max RPM's you introduce the unmilled rice to the equation.
Then magic starts to happen. The rice starts to go from a very tan color to a lighter shade. The skill here is to bring the rice to the correct shade of brown or tan and to know when it is milled enough, and only years of experience can teach this.
Yesterday the above process took place here at America's Oldest Operating Rice Mill in New Iberia, LA.
All of our crew was totally wrapped up in their appointed tasks.
After the Wild Pecan rice ran through the Mill we had to package it in 7oz CO2 flushed pouches that will eventually be sewn into our retro burlap packages and shipped to you.
We finished in record time with no break downs or delays. The A team was definitely on their "A" game yesterday.
If you would like to see our old rice mill come visit us at 309 Ann St in the KONRIKO Co Store, where the tour begins and ends. We start the tours at 9am and go till 5pm Monday - Saturday, year round.
We even have our Wild Pecan rice cooked up for you to try along with our many KONRIKO Seasoning blends and other KONRIKO brand products like our Bay Island Secret sauce.
Come see us and enjoy our beautiful Bayou Country surrounded by towering moss covered life oak trees with the faint aroma of a Gumbo simmering somewhere in town.
Hope to see you soon....come hungry.

It's Tuesday morning and it is going to be a busy couple of days for us here at the old rice mill.Today we will make a t...
10/20/2026

It's Tuesday morning and it is going to be a busy couple of days for us here at the old rice mill.
Today we will make a ton of jalapeno seasoning and Creole seasoning from 2.5oz cans to bulk 25 # containers of seasoning.
Then tomorrow, Wednesday, we will crank up the Mill and mill a large tote of Wild Pecan rice and pack it in 7oz pouches, that will be placed in our 7oz retro burlap bags.
We are getting ready for the Holiday season when our Wild Pecan rice sells best.
The new retro burlap bag of Wild Pecan rice makes a great gift as it contains 7oz of our aromatic brown rice, which is just enough to make a cup of uncooked rice, or enough to serve 4 adults.
Our Wild Pecan rice is brown rice that cooks in only 20 minutes instead of the normal 50 minute cook time. It will fill your home with a rich nutty aroma that will have your family and guests coming into the kitchen to see what you are cooking.
The Milling and packaging process is pretty complicated so our retired rice miller will be coming in tomorrow to oversee our milling and packaging. He has forgotten more than I have ever known about milling rice, so his help is really apprecaited.
On top of the above we will be serving our Cuban and BBQ Pulled Pork sandwiches tomorrow, too. Not sure how we are going to do this, but we may have to press some of the store crew into cooking the sandwiches. I'm not too worried as the store crew knows as much as I do about running the panini machine. I'll put the sandwiches together early tomorrow morning so all they have to do is press them in the panini machine, which is very easy to operate.
On top of making seasonings we also have to wrap the pallets and label them then load the various orders as each customer's truck arrives, but that is the easier part of the whole process.
We are really seeing a lot more visitors here at KONRIKO in the last few days. Lots of folks from overseas and lots of folks from here in the USA. It is really a fun time to be working here, meeting all the people from so many different places who do so many different things back home. We do get a lot of retired folks, too and they usually have lots of interesting things to share about what they did before they retired.
Come see us here at the KONRIKO Co Store at 309 Ann St in New Iberia. We are open from 9am to 5pm. Pick up some freshly milled Wild Pecan rice while you are here and taste test some of our other KONRIKO items we have made and set out for you to try.
Hope to see you soon !!

Running a little late this morning as my cousins just pulled out for their return trip to Kansas. Our weekend was wonder...
10/19/2026

Running a little late this morning as my cousins just pulled out for their return trip to Kansas.
Our weekend was wonderful. Swapping family tales, catching up on kids and grandkids and just being together. Lots of laughing, too. Really great weekend. Don't envy them the 12 hour return drive to Kansas, but, knowing them as I do, they will make a party of the long drive.
We will be running the old rice mill Wednesday, not something we do every day. We will be milling some more of our Wild Pecan rice, getting ready for the Holiday season, one of the best times of the year for our signature rice product.
Our old retired rice mill will be joining us Wednesday to make sure we turn on the correct switches in the right sequence. Really appreciate his coming out of retirement to help out.
I'm still planning to make our Cuban and BBQ Pulled pork sandwiches on Wednesday. Not sure how we are going to do this and run the Mill, but we will figure it out. Call us at 337.364.7242 to reserve a sandwich or two or come by the KONRIKO Co Store around noon, I should have some ready to go.
The first real cool spell of the year has arrived over the weekend. It is a rule that you have to make and eat gumbo when the first cool spell gets here. We did that at our Son's home on Saturday. That man does know how to cook. The gumbo was great and we were able to introduce our Kansas cousins to a great chicken and sausage gumbo plus some really good boudin. Enjoyed by all.
It is great to have family come visit as it got us visiting a lot of our local spots that we know and talk about, but just don't get to often enough. We are lucky folks to live in S. Louisiana.
Come see us here at America's Oldest operating rice mill and let us show you around. The weather is great and the gumbo pot is simmering and ready to serve.
Hope to see you in our store at 309 Ann St here in New Iberia, La. We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday-Saturday, year round.

This weekend will be a family weekend at our home, as we have two of my first cousins visiting us from Kansas. My parent...
10/16/2026

This weekend will be a family weekend at our home, as we have two of my first cousins visiting us from Kansas.
My parents were from Ft Scott, KS. My Dad got the head track coaching job at ULL, which at that time was called SLI.
We visited Ft. Scott once or twice a year and let me tell you, back in the day, that was a journey. It was over 700 miles of two lane highway that took you through the mountains in NW Arkansas to SE Kansas. Ft. Scott was near Joplin, MO.
My sister and I occupied the rear seat of our Pontiac sedan with our parents in the front seat. The car didn't have a/c, as no cars did in the 1950's.
My Dad was one of those guys who was hell bent on getting there so stopping when someone had a call of nature didn't happen too often. We did get a certain amount of revenge on him by constantly asking, " are we there yet".
The trips to Kansas were an adventure for me, but my Mother, on her death bed, told me the best thing my Dad had ever done for her, was move us to Louisiana. She hated cold weather and Kansas is full of cold in the winter and pretty hot in the summer.
Our moving to Louisiana worked out pretty well for our two kids, as I would never have met my Wife if we had not located to S. Louisiana.
As I age a bit I keep getting reminded about how important family is. Having strong family roots to help you stay grounded and firmly based is so very important.
We will tell lots of stories this weekend, some of them sort of true, as we have a bit of Irish in our family and wild story telling is part of our DNA.
We have a strong family here at KONRIKO, too. Most of our employees have been here for a number of years. We even have some of our retired employees who will come back to help us out, from time to time. Everyone is crossed trained. We have production employees who work in our KONRIKO Co Store. There is no one job anyone here only does, we do what we have to do to keep the place moving forward.
One of the major factors for our 114 years of continuous operation is YOU. If you didn't continue to pickup our KONRIKO products at your favorite store we would be long gone, so thank you, thank you !!
Just a reminder, we are giving tours of America's Oldest rice mill Monday-Saturday from 9am to 5pm, year round. We are located at 309 Ann St here in New Iberia, LA. Just plug our address in your GPS and come see us.
Also, another reminder, we will be making more Cuban and BBQ Pulled Pork sandwiches next Wednesday around noon. Call us at 337.364.7242 to reserve your sandwiches.
Look forward to your visit and introducing you to our KONRIKO family.
Hope to see you soon !!

We had three ladies from Lafayette come visit us yesterday, take the old rice mill tour and stayed and enjoyed one of ou...
10/15/2026

We had three ladies from Lafayette come visit us yesterday, take the old rice mill tour and stayed and enjoyed one of our Cuban Sandwiches with us. They were a delight and seemed to be having a really good time. What a pleasure to have visitors like this.
When we decided to start making Cuban and BBQ Pulled Pork sandwiches the plan was to get our local consumers to come visit us here at KONRIKO and see all the different items we make. Most folks know us for our Wild Pecan rice or KONRIKO Creole Seasoning, but we make many more items. Getting folks to visit us allows us the opportunity to introduce the Bay Island Secret sauce or our unique Gravy and Sauce Thickener made from 100% rice.
So, when you come next week to pickup one of our Cuban sandwiches plan on browsing our KONRIKO Co Store and see what we have offer. Stay and enjoy your sandwiches with us here in the store, we love the company and love to watch folks enjoying themselves, it is pure pleasure for all of us here at KONRIKO.
We have two of my first cousins coming to visit us this weekend, so we were planning where to take them. We made a list and it turned out a lot longer than I thought it would be, but we have so many neat places to visit here in S. Louisiana. Also it is suppose to cool off this weekend so that makes it even more enjoyable to tour the area.
I will be seasoning the pork roast Saturday and getting ready to make more sandwiches next Wednesday, plan on coming to get one and let us take you on tour of our old Rice Mill, the oldest operating in America. The tour takes approx 40 minutes.
We will be running the old rice mill next week to mill some more Wild Pecan rice. Our retired rice miller will come out of retirement for a day to give us a hand and answer any questions we may have. He has forgotten more about milling rice than most of us ever knew.
Look forward to catching up with him.
Hope you can come visit us soon. We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday-Saturday, year round.
Come hungry as we have lots of KONRIKO samples for you to personally taste test.
Hope to see you soon !!

My Wife and I are looking forward to an upcoming visit from two of my first cousins, who live in Kansas. My parents were...
10/14/2026

My Wife and I are looking forward to an upcoming visit from two of my first cousins, who live in Kansas.
My parents were both from Kansas but we moved to Lafayette, LA in 1950, when my Dad became the head Track Coach at ULL, then called SLI.
Ever year we would make the trip to Ft. Scott, KS to visit relatives. One of the first cousins coming to visit us, lived on a farm way out in the country, north of Ft. Scott. He and I were close in age, I'm a couple of years older, so we had a great time playing together and having great adventures on the farm.
One year we were at my Cousins house during Peach Season. My Uncle Karl had gotten some ripe peaches and the clan decided to make homemade ice cream.
We had an old fashioned manual ice cream maker, the type where you put ice and ice cream salt in and cranked the handle for, what seemed like hours, until the crank got too hard to turn, which was the tell that the ice cream was ready.
My Cousin and I, being the youngest boys there, got assigned the task of being the ice cream turners. We were about 7th or 8th graders at the time and had lots of energy. We took turns cranking the ice cream maker and adding ice and salt as needed. Every now and then two of our older cousins would come out and check on us. Mainly they just watched us crank the ice cream maker handle.
The farm house was full of family, who had come over to visit with us, as we didn't get to Kansas that often. They were sitting around, talking and catching up on family matters and were anxiously awaiting desert, home made peach ice cream.
As the crank got harder to turn and it was obvious the ice cream was about done, our two older cousins stepped in and said, " let me crank the handle to see if it the ice cream was ready". Being much younger we stepped aside only to hear our older cousins announce to the family...." We have been cranking the ice cream maker and the ice cream is ready to go in the house....hope you all enjoy the results of our hard labor".
My younger cousin and I just looked at each other with our mouths wide open as our older cousins carried the ice cream maker into the house, all the while receiving lavish praise for the job well done.
We didn't speak up, we were younger than them and were over whelmed by their age and personalities, but we sure learned a hard lesson, don't turn over the ice cream crank to older cousins cause they will steal your thunder !
By the way, the homemade peach ice cream was delicious.
Speaking of delicious, we will be making and serving our Cuban and BBQ Pulled Pork sandwiches today, Wednesday, around noon. Call us at 337.364.7242 to reserve one or two.
Tours of our old rice mill are on going every day but Sunday, from 9am to 5pm. The tours begin in our KONRIKO Co Store located at 309 Ann St here in N.I. The tour takes about 40 minutes followed by a tasting session of our many KONRIKO brand products. Also, don't forget to mark your hometown on our map in the store. We keep a record of all the places and countries people have come from. The map is pretty cool and fun to see all the many places visitors have found our old rice mill from.
Come see us, come hungry and enjoy our relaxed and very casual ambience.
Hope to see you soon !!

This week is making KONRIKO Creole Seasoning week. We just got in our new shipment of Creole Seasoning cans and have to ...
10/13/2026

This week is making KONRIKO Creole Seasoning week.
We just got in our new shipment of Creole Seasoning cans and have to catch up on all the orders we have been holding.
This is our signature seasoning item so we know how to make and pack it very efficiently.
We are all ready to go this morning with all the cases labeled and waiting for us.
We sold out, this past weekend, all of our Cuban and BBQ Pulled pork sandwiches.
I cooked the pork roast yesterday and it is resting today waiting for me to make the sandwiches tomorrow morning.
If you want to reserve a sandwich for Wednesday morning call us at 337.364.7242 and let us know what you want and when you will pick it up.
Now that it is a little cooler in the evenings when I get home from work, I have restarted my mile walk. While I don't relish the walk, once I get started, I really do enjoy the exercise and looking at all the yards freshly mowed, the left over toliet paper hanging from the trees from the houses that got wrapped, the usual stuff. OK enough with the wrapping houses, it sure looks like it is getting out of hand in my neighborhood.
Starting to see the number of visitors picking up here at the Mill. Nice to see more folks moving around and visiting our area of Louisiana. Saw a spot on tourism in New Orleans, they claim these are some of the busiest visitor days of the year. Don't know why, we see more folks during the spring of the year, Mardi Gras on to Easter.
If you are in the area we give tours of our old rice mill Monday-Saturday 9am to 5pm. Our tour takes about 40 minutes, not counting the time needed for shopping in our KONRIKO Co Store, located at 309 Ann St, '
Hope you can come see us we love to show off our Operation and talk to you about our KONRIKO items and love to recommend places to see and visit, too.
See you soon !!

This past weekend was the Gumbo Cook Off, which was held here in downtown New Iberia, La. It was a two day event and fro...
10/12/2026

This past weekend was the Gumbo Cook Off, which was held here in downtown New Iberia, La.
It was a two day event and from the look of the crowds, cars, etc, it was another successful event.
We had several folks come by the KONRIKO Co Store Friday and Saturday who were in town for the Gumbo cook off. Really enjoyed meeting them as many were from far away but a lot of folks from here in Louisiana, too.
The weather was perfect, thank you all, who came to visit us here in New Iberia, LA.
I was watching the local weather man last night and he is forecasting our first coolish front of the Fall this coming weekend. I don't know about you , but I'm ready for some cooler weather as this past summer was a hot and tough one.
I have a couple of first cousins coming to visit my Wife and I this coming weekend. They live in northeast Kansas which is usually cooler than we are, so the upcoming cool front will make their visit even more pleasurable. We are mapping out where we will take them and what we will feed them.
One thing is certain we will be taking them to visit us here at the KONRIKO Co Store at 309 Ann St. They have both been here before but it has been many moons since their last visit and we have several new KONRIKO items they have not seen.
We give tours of our historic old rice mill every day Monday-Saturday from 9am to 5pm, year round. Please stop and visit with us and let us feed you some of our many KONRIKO brand items. We love to hear your comments on our products !!
Just put the pork roast in the oven at 6am. It will cook at a low temp for the next 8 hours, then I will break it down and let it rest until we make it into Cuban and BBQ Pulled Pork sandwiches that we serve on Wednesday around noon.
Our inventory is low so call ahead to reserve a sandwich or two, call 337.364.7242.
Got to go, have a busy day ahead of us, getting the cases ready and a batch ready to package tomorrow morning of our KONRIKO Creole Seasoning.
Please come pay us a visit, we would love to show you our old rice mill and share with you our many KONRIKO brand products.
Hope to see you soon !!

It was definitely cooler this morning when I left the house. The first cooler weather always reminds me of football weat...
10/09/2026

It was definitely cooler this morning when I left the house. The first cooler weather always reminds me of football weather.
Here in Iberia Parish we are in the middle of Homecoming Celebrations.
Wednesday afternoon NISH had it's homecoming parade. Yesterday, Thursday, Highland and Catholic High had their homecoming parades. Not sure when Westgate will have theirs'.
Since we have a senior grandson at Catholic High my Wife and I and Daisy sat on the curb on Main St, near Schwing Insurance, and watched both parades. Even got to see our Grandson in the parade.
New Iberia and Iberia Parish really do a good job of celebrating our
students. We are not a large city but we don't miss a beat when it comes to supporting our High Schools, both public and religious.
The local leadership is to be commended for this as it takes a lot of planning and city and parish resources to support all of our schools, but they do it and do it first class.
In the small section of Main St, where we watched the parade, our black Lab Daisy was the hit of parade viewers. We had just about every child over 4 or 5 years old stopping to ask if they could pet Daisy. She loved it, as she is a professional greeter here at the KONRIKO Co Store and has been for the last 12 years.
There were no shortages of "throws" from the participants in the parades. They threw candy, mini footballs, beads, you name it. I suspect it will take a few hours to clean up all the litter from the parades, but it will be worth it as everyone we saw was having a great family time waving at their children and grand kids.
If you will be in town, for what ever reason, stop in to our KONRIKO Co Store at 309 Ann St here in N.I. We are open from 9am to 5pm Monday-Saturday giving tours and just being here to talk to all of our friends and neighbors. We see ourselves as a small, laid back Company that has time to visit and talk and to learn what you want in your KONRIKO brand products.
Hopefully we are listening correctly, but if we miss a beat we hope you will help us get back on the ball. Right now our emphasis is on NON GMO, Gluten Free, MSG, clean ingredient products.....that taste good.
From the amount of Bay Island secret sauce, Creole Seasoning and Wild Pecan rice we are selling I pretty sure we are on the right track....thanks to YOU !!
Come see us, take the tour and sit and visit awhile.
Hope to see you soon.
p.s. we have a good supply of Cuban and BBQ Pulled pork sandwiches in our KONRIKO Freezer,too.

Address

307 Ann Street
New Iberia, LA
70560

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+18005513245

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