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Year-end doldrums mean little potential for prices to climb until after the start of the new year. By Kurt Guidry The rice market appears to be stuck in a sideways trading pattern with little indications of significant moves in either direction....

Lower overall supplies, higher prices conspire to reduce demand for this year’s crop. By Kurt Guidry After struggling to find support for prices for most of 2016, the rice market has been able to enjoy moderate price increases to this point...

Kurt Guidry, a professor of agricultural economics with the Louisiana State University AgCenter in Baton Rouge, has been named regional director for the AgCenter Southwest Region. The appointment is effective Oct. 1. Guidry, who will be based at the H....

Southeast Missouri State University will host an agriculture technology workshop series, beginning Aug. 1, to help agribusinesses gain insight into innovations and regional resources available to them. The series will meet each Tuesday and Thursday during the first two weeks...

Lower acreage, increased export expectations bring market optimism, but more export sales will be needed to significantly boost prices. By Kurt Guidry The rice market finally received some positive fundamental supply and demand news over the past few weeks with the release...

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...

With an imbalance between supply and demand, lower production and supplies will be needed in 2017 to strengthen prices. By Kurt Guidry The rice market in Louisiana and much of the Southern rice-growing states continues to be pressured with large supplies and...

For more than six decades, a major stop along the way to a new rice farming season is the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show. This year’s event will be held at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn., March 3-4. “The...

Market needs a spark in demand, particularly from foreign buyers, to reach upside price potential. By Kurt Guidry The news for the rice market continued to be grim with the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s October 2016 Supply and Demand estimates. The overriding theme is large...

TEXAS Dr. M.O. "Mo" Way Rice Research Entomologist [email protected] It was an ugly year Rice was planted on about 165,000 acres in 2016 compared to about 130,000 in 2015, according to the Texas Rice Crop Survey. This increase was due to release of water...

  To create positive momentum and remove the cloud moving forward, demand and accompanying sales will need to increase. By Kurt Guidry While there were no changes made in the supply and demand numbers released in the April release of U.S. Department...

Rice Growers Association LLC recently opened an office in Yuba City, Calif. The vertically integrated company was formed by rice producer Greg Van Dyke and industry veteran Pat Daddow. RGA plans to provide consumers with a "Farm to Fork" experience by managing...

Erratic export demand, strong U.S. dollar and higher U.S. rice prices conspire to soften short-term market outlook. By Kurt Guidry The supply and demand outlook for the rice market remained mostly unchanged with the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates...

This season, U.S. rice growers nationwide are expected to plant 3.04 million acres, or 17 percent more than they did in 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's prospective plantings report released March 31. Growers in each of the...

Convention brings together the world of technology and rice marketers in Houston. Although the focus of the Rice Market & Technology Convention has always be on the rice market of the Americas, the success of this event has spread to...