Harold Fredrick Rice, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2000
FR Cattle Company | Hawai'i
Freddy has been a leader in the ranching and cattle industry in Hawaii for more than 40 years. Born and raised on the family ranch on Kaonoulu Maui, Freddy Rice is a fifth-generation paniolo. A graduate of Punahou High School and Cornell University, his education was in livestock marketing, agronomy, nutrition & conservation; knowledge he invested in his long and distinguished career in the Hawaii ranching industry. He has developed water systems, grazing systems, wild life programs and soil conservation ranching techniques. In his career as a paniolo he managed or operated 4 different ranches on the Big Island and Maui – and even found time to establish a successful charter fishing business. Today he is the owner of FR Cattle Company that operates on lands on the slopes of Mauna Kea.