How is rice grown? We visited rice farmers Brita and Bryce Lundberg to learn more about their organic and regenerative rice farm in Richvale, California. At Lundberg Family Farms, https://californiagrown.org/blog/lundberg-family-farms/ , the way rice is grown matters. When the family...

By: Iris Figueroa For more than two decades, the US Rice Producers Association (USRPA) and the Guatemalan Rice Association (ARROZGUA) have worked together to promote U.S. rice, strengthen trade relationships, and support nutrition education throughout Guatemala. Since 2004, this partnership...

Peter Bachmann As combines go quiet and the 2026 crop year closes, few rice farmers will be sad to see it go. By almost any measure, it has been one of the most difficult stretches our industry has faced in...

Vidalina Abadam, coordinator Saquib Ahsan, Jennifer Bond, Seth Wechsler, and Ethan Sabala, contributors U.S. All-Rice Supply Is Lowered for 2026/27 There are minimal revisions this month to the U.S. rice balance sheet for marketing year 2026/27 (August 2026–July 2027). U.S. total...

By Sarah Cato University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture  LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas  Jarrod Hardke says, “It’s not an illusion — harvest weather has changed, and it doesn’t like us.” Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, said...

by Ella IDE edited by Andrew Zinin Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritizing biodiversity over crop yield. Golden rice fields...

Susan Collins-Smith RAYMOND, Mississippi. Although Mississippi rice producers planted fewer acres this year than is typical, it was a good production year overall. “Yield reports were positive for the majority of our fields,” said Will Eubank, rice specialist with the Mississippi State University...

Cotton Rohrscheib Cotton Buzz Rice is more than another row crop in Arkansas. It is one of the foundations of the state’s agricultural economy. Arkansas produced about 45% of all U.S. rice in 2025, making what happens in our fields important...

RICHARD E. HICKS OCEAN SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI For the past several months we have highlighted the top five rice producing countries in the world. As we have seen we have a new winner in the production category India and a new looser...

The company is lowering the price on two of its most widely planted varieties. It says the decision has less to do with those varieties and more to do with the economics growers are facing right now. Growers didn't cut...

Photo by Emily Rose Photography / www.emilyrosephotography.com BY KURT D. LAROSE On a warm Louisiana morning, the Broussard farm looks like a patchwork of past and present — laser and Satellite leveled fields stretching toward the horizon, crawfish traps stacked beside...

By Dennis DeLaughter, Senior Market Analyst for US Rice Producers Association The rice market is increasingly becoming a story of two very different fundamentals. In the United States, sharply lower production has created a relatively tight domestic balance sheet while...

By Michael Klein There are moments in any industry's history when the headwinds stop feeling temporary. When you've absorbed enough hits that the question stops being "when does this get better?" and starts being something harder to say out loud. We...

Vidalina Abadam, coordinator Jennifer Bond, Seth Wechsler, Andrew Sowell, and Ethan Sabala, contributors U.S. All-Rice Supply Is Raised for 2026/27  The U.S. all-rice supply for marketing year 2026/27 (August 2026–July 2027) is raised 4.4 million hundredweight (cwt) this month...

By John Lovett University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Fast Facts Projects include rice quality, brewing applications, long-term crop management research Arkansas is the nation’s leading rice producer Anheuser-Busch sources nearly all ingredients for its American beers from U.S. farmers (610 words) Download...