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A forecast for U.S. rice imports through 2060 and some reflections on how the world rice price really works What you need to know about the rice market in the United States is that the rice market in the Americas,...

Arkansas Gov. Governor Hutchinson, along with Tim and Robin Ralston of Ralston Family Farms, recently announced that a rice shipment from their farm is the first Arkansas rice to be exported to China. Through a contract with a private importer...

• By Peter Bachmann • The first-ever commercial shipment of U.S.-grown rice was unloaded in China Oct. 27 following more than a decade of regulatory and political effort by USA Rice to establish a two-way trading relationship with the nation. The...

People have been calling this new decade “The Roaring ’20s.” With the way things have been moving forward on the international trade front, that certainly seems to be the case. New trade developments at the end of 2019 and the...

While 2019 was doom and gloom for rice producers, 2020 may be the year of the rebound for the state’s largest agricultural export, with total Arkansas rice acreage expected to increase 25% to nearly 1.5 million acres. “We’re expecting a...

• By Bruce Schultz • A group of seven Chinese rice buyers visited the LSU AgCenter H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station Dec. 12 as part of their tour through U.S. rice-growing areas. During the visit, China and the U.S. reached...

• By Sarah Moran • After decades chasing the enormous China market, a sale of U.S. rice was confirmed last week. "This sale marks a turning point for the U.S. rice industry and its relationship with China as the it is...

I want to assure you that even though this column is going on hiatus for the summer, our work continues unabated. We will spend the summer as we do every season — finding and opening new markets, expanding opportunities...

USA Rice promotions in nearly 25 countries help tell the U.S. rice industry’s positive story. I think everyone in the rice industry knows we export about half of our crop annually, making us highly dependent on market conditions around the...

Growing up, our parents would scold us if we were picking at the food on our plate during dinner. “You better clean your plate. Think of the poor starving kids in China.” Back then, I just thought it was one...

As you prepare your fields for this year’s crop, USA Rice is developing marketing plans to help move the rice you will grow. The state agriculture and research meetings are winding down, and you’re in the process of making plans...