Last week, India’s egregious World Trade Organization (WTO) domestic support violations, particularly those related to rice subsidies, were put front and center for U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai during two Congressional hearings.
Read MoreIn it’s latest prospective plantings report, USDA reports corn acreage in Louisiana this season will be down slightly while cotton acreage will be WAY up.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced the 2022 Marketing Assistance Loan rates.
Read MoreLast week, several USA Rice members worked together to deliver a shipment of U.S.-grown rice to help feed the people of Ukraine.
Read MoreThis probably isn’t a secret to most rice producers: Rice markets are different than those for other commodities in that, for openers, they are dominated by two countries – India and the People’s Republic of China.
Read MoreLast summer, Julie and Christian Richard hosted a video production team from Wild Hive, a strategy and communications firm from Austin, Texas, to take part in a project highlighting U.S. rice and seafood for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).
Read MorePlanting in southern Louisiana and the Texas Rice Belt cranked up the week of Feb. 28. Dry conditions from October until now allowed fields to be prepared for drill seeding in the region and set the stage for a quick start to the planting season.
Read MoreThe House Agriculture Committee held a hearing Wednesday focused on climate change and the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill. During the hearing, several Members highlighted the formidable economic situation on American farms given ever-increasing input costs.
Read MoreAs the situation on the ground in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, USA Rice has been working to respond and offer assistance. In the first two weeks of the conflict, more than 2.5 million refugees have left their homes seeking safety in neighboring countries and in safer areas within Ukraine.
Read MoreIn January, Rice Farming reported that Louisiana State University had released an early, high-yielding long grain and a high-amylose long grain for parboiling and export markets — LA19-2212 and LA20-2126. Both varieties are from Dr. Adam Famoso’s breeding program out of the LSU AgCenter.
Read MoreThis month’s 2021/22 U.S. corn supply and use outlook is for increased food, seed, and industrial use, larger exports, and smaller stocks relative to last month.
Read MoreNew rice varieties from the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station in Crowley.
Read MoreTurning rice into whiskey and vodka is a new market in the Midsouth, but an innovative farming operation is paving the way for a more diversified cropping system in Louisiana.
Read MoreThe 2019/21 USA Rice Leadership Class concluded their fourth and final session here this week where they got an insiders’ look at the federal legislative process attending hearings with Congressional committees, meetings with federal agencies, such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and having face-to-face interactions with their home-state senators and representatives.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter has added plant pathologist Felipe Dalla Lana to its roster of researchers at the H. Rouse Caffey Rice Research Station.
With nearly a decade of experience studying plant disease in both Brazil and the United States, Dalla Lana brings a wealth of experience from his work in the Midwest applying statistical analysis and modeling to the realm of plant pathology.
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