Lacassine rail facility almost ready to roll

Published August 7, 2012 3:30pm ET



LACASSINE, La. (AP) — Nearly 2,000 barrels of raw rice from farmer Glenden Marceaux is waiting in storage at a new $4 million high-speed rail facility nearing completion in rural Jefferson Davis Parish.

Marceaux’s rice will be used to test the facility’s operation.

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