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Rice Market: Weather Concerns in SE Asia Impacting Price
The rice market has quieted down over the past week from a marketing standpoint although growers across the rice production regions have continued to work to gather the new crop […]
World Rough Rice Prices Unchanged
The Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced the following prevailing world market prices of milled and rough rice, adjusted for U.S. milling yields and location, and the resulting […]
Rice Straws Could Be Solution to Throw Away Plastics
More and more businesses, consumers, and governments are looking for ways to decrease their single-use plastic consumption, and disposable plastic straws have become a lightning rod in the worldwide effort […]
Rice Outlook: U.S. Production Forecast Lowered 2%
There were several revisions this month to the 2019/20 U.S. rice balance sheet. On the supply side, the U.S. production forecast was lowered 3.3 million cwt to 205.4 million cwt […]
Texas Field Reports: Weather Swings from Extreme to Extreme
Weather went from extremely wet to extremely hot and dry across most of Texas, according to the Texas State Climatologist. John Nielsen-Gammon, Ph.D., College Station, said the weather turned from […]
Arkansas Field Reports: Early Corn Harvest, Crops Mostly Look Good
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending August 18, 2019. Comments from Cooperative Extension Service County Agents Rick Wimberley, Cross County “Spotty, heavy rainfall was causing flooding at the […]
Louisiana Field Reports: Rice Harvest Slowed by Rain
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending August 18, 2019. Comments from Cooperative Extension Service Parish Agents Blair Hebert, Iberia Parish “Heavy showers by mid to late week has […]
Louisiana Rice: Farmers Look for Silver Lining for 2019 Crop
Rice harvest in Louisiana has been going on for a few weeks now, with some growers having just gotten started, and some just wrapping up. All in all, this was […]
Rice: Blast Resistance Could Be on the Horizon
Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be exploited to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast disease, a major threat […]
Rice Market: Harvest Full Speed Ahead, Little New Crop Yet to Trade
It has been another hot week in the rice world as harvest continues apace in the South along the Gulf Coast with portions of the Mississippi crop preparing to begin […]
