The outlook for 2021/22 U.S. rice this month is for smaller supplies, unchanged domestic use and exports, and reduced ending stocks. All of the 2021/22 changes are the result of 2020/21 trade revisions.

Access to water and water use are among the most important aspects of rice farming. It can be one of the most costly inputs, and it can also be highly controversial and political. Water efficiency is vital for farmers’ bottom lines, the planet, and the rice industry’s social license to operate. Row Rice on The Rice Stuff Podcast.

Yesterday, President Biden’s U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced with their European counterpart, European Commission Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis, that they are officially working towards an agreement to repeal the Section 232 tariffs on U.S. and European products.

The announcement comes just weeks before the three-year anniversary of the tariffs being imposed.

The 84th International Rice Festival will return to Crowley this fall after being canceled last year due to the COVID-`19 pandemic.

The festival will return to Downtown Crowley Oct. 14-17, 2021.

USA Rice has a long-standing trade relationship with the National Federation of Rice Producers in Colombia (FEDEARROZ), an organization representing Colombian rice farmers that provides technological advice, seeds, and agrochemicals to their thousands of members.

Recently, however, FEDEARROZ tapped the relationship with USA Rice for a different purpose, namely, to gather information on rice research to assist their organization in developing recommendations for future rice production in Colombia

The initial 2021/22 outlook for U.S. rice is for reduced supplies, exports, domestic use, and ending stocks. Total 2021/22 supplies are projected at 285.0 million cwt, down 2 percent from last year on lower production more than offsetting higher imports and significantly greater beginning stocks.

All rice production is projected at 203.6 million cwt, down 11 percent from the previous year on reduced harvested area. The 2021/22 projected all rice yield is 7,651 pounds per acre, up 32 pounds from last year.

The next wave of innovations in crop science may come not from cross-breeding plants or reprogramming their genes but by tweaking the microbes that live in, on and around them.

As skyrocketing crop prices fuel fears about soaring food costs and hunger around the globe, one of the world’s most consumed staples is bucking the trend and warding off a broader food crisis at least for now.