Rival Rice Growers Crush US Farmers Already Beset by Trade War

By Jeremy Hill, Bloomberg

Here’s another entry for the growing list of suffering U.S. agriculture industries: rice. Just ask Richard Fontenot, a rice, soybean and crawfish farmer near Ville Platte, Louisiana. He’s considering letting some of the 3,600 acres (1,457 hectares) he plants with grain and oilseed to lie fallow this year as a result of slumping commodities prices.