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5/4/2023
Making Memories
55th Reunion of the BHS Class of 1968
Friday, August 11th: Socialize, Dinner, Program at Shoshone Bannock Hotel
Meet at 5:00 P.M to socialize; drinks available at the
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Thomas Slayton
I retired in January - for the second time. After forty years of monitoring and analyzing the world rice market, I was recognized as one of the top rice "experts." The choices we make (sometimes unconsciously)and the paths we take (often inadvertently)...
I attended the U of I intending to major in pre-law, but a young, charismatic professor piqued my interest in international relations. Intending to work for the State Department, I received my Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University with concentrations in Latin American Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis.
Instead, thru an introduction by my major undergrad professor, I ended up at USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service. My first overseas posting was to be to Mexico in 1978, but an opening occurred one year earlier in Indonesia - so I grabbed it. After two years, we were scheduled to go to Brazil, but I was asked to extend our tour for a third year. At the time, Indonesia was the world's largest rice importer, annually buying 3 million tons or one-fifth of the world's rice trade. I was hooked!
I returned to HQ in 1980 and was soon assigned to the rice desk - monitoring developments overseas. In 1986 we went back overseas to Thailand - the world's largest rice exporter. After two years, I resigned from USDA and joined the U.S. Rice Millers Association as their in house trade analyst. In 1991, I set out on my own, forming Slayton & Associates and publishing The Rice Trader - a weekly analysis of production and trade. Almost all of the major world rice traders were subscribers, as were many of the largest rice exporters.
I sold the TRT in 2005 and retired for the first time. Cheri and I celebrated my retirement by taking a cruise up Burma's Irrawaddy River. For three years I did lots of reading and foreign travel. In 2008, I received a call from the World Bank asking that I travel to Indonesia to advise the government on how they should react to sharply rising world rice prices. This launched the last phase of my career as a consultant. I traveled for the World Bank to Cambodia, Burma, and Saudi Arabia. For the last nine years, I was also a full time consultant for Louis Dreyfus - the world's largest rice trader.
Cheri and I are back to reading lots of books and traveling overseas. (We were in Morocco in April - my 43rd destination - and Scandinavia is on the drawing board for this fall.) Life has been very good - altho hardly what I thought it my be back in 1968.
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