rice markets

• By Scott Stiles • The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its much-anticipated June Acreage report this week. The most surprising aspect of the report was the lack of change from the March intentions. Likely the report left traders with more...

• By Scott Stiles • Although the futures market disagreed and closed lower on Thursday, the June WASDE adjustments were somewhat favorable for rice. The “new crop” or 2021/22 long-grain ending stocks were reduced 2 million cwt to 30.1 million....

• By Scott Stiles • For rice, it has been a shortened week of narrow trading ranges and declining volume. Open interest was leaking steadily this week out of the old crop July contract and building gradually over in the...

• 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...

Rice farmers in northeast Louisiana, including those interested in trying row rice, heard advice from LSU AgCenter scientists about the upcoming 2019 season at a recent meeting in Rayville. They also heard some potentially good news from the president of...

• 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 Kurt Guidry • When examining the market situation for a commodity and trying to project where that market may trend, it can often be useful to look back at similar years. When looking at the current rice market,...