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The strangeness of Arkansas’ rain-soaked planting season sloshed over into Friday’s National Agricultural Statistics Service Acreage report, with the agency saying it would be collecting additional information on the state’s soybeans and cotton. NASS said that in July, it would...

Three factors influence prices and could help move rice markets from their current doldrums. • By Kurt Guidry • There has been very little positive momentum in the rice market over the past several months. Cash prices in Louisiana are still...

The value of Arkansas’ No. 1 crop fell by 15 percent in 2018 as the effects of an ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China took hold through the summer. A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

• By Kurt Guidry • The rice market has been quiet over the past couple of months with cash prices moving in a fairly narrow range. Some of this lackluster activity has been the normal seasonal slowdown typical of the holidays...

• By Kurt Guidry • The activity of the rice market has been markedly lower over the last several weeks and looks to have gone into its typical slowdown as we head toward the holiday season and the end of the...

• By Bruce Schultz • In a series of meetings in southwest Louisiana, Louisiana State University AgCenter experts offered farmers advice for growing their 2019 crop. Farmers met recently in Welsh, Abbeville, Ville Platte and Crowley only a few weeks from the...

The recently negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, likely successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement, should go a long way at eliminating incentives for Mexico to import rice from countries other than the United States. That is the conclusion...

USDA-ERS agricultural economist Nathan Childs recently provided a glimpse into how the 2018-19 rice marketing year is expected to shape up. • By Vicky Boyd, Editor • The 2017-18 rice marketing year is just a few days shy of ending, but...

Although it’s still too early to tell, delayed planting could shore up at least short-term prices. By Kurt Guidry — Information coming from the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the past several weeks has been mixed in terms of providing...

Shorter supplies have shorn up the current market, but increased 2018 planting projections cloud long-term price outlook. By Kurt Guidry When reviewing the factors influencing the rice market, it becomes fairly apparent that contrasting forces could shape future price movement. On one...

With tight world supplies, an interruption anywhere could likely send prices higher and help U.S. exports. By Vicky Boyd Editor Once the top rice-exporting country globally in 1980, the United States has since slipped to a distant sixth place where it...

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...

Pinnacle Rice Cooperative was recently launched to increase member returns by providing liquidity, quality and logistical support to the California rice industry. Calrose Co-op, a grower-owned cooperative comprising rice farmers throughout Northern California, was folded into the Butte County Rice...

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...