USDA Weekly Rice Review

Offers, fob mills, milled rice, spot prices, dollars per cwt, bagged. (All milled rice grade No 2 not to exceed 4 percent brokens, except California grade No 1. All second heads grade No 4 or better, second head and brewers are bulk.)

 Arkansas         Texas     Louisiana    California
Long grain      19.00-19.50   19.00-23.50   18.50-19.00
Medium grain    20.00-25.00                 22.00-25.00   24.50-28.00
Short grain                                               26.50-27.00
Parboiled       20.00-23.00   23.50-31.00         31.50
Second heads    15.50-16.00   15.00-16.00   15.00-15.50   16.00-21.50
Brewers         15.00-15.50   15.00-15.50   14.50-15.00   15.00-16.75
 
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
 
Rice bran       85.00-95.00         85.00         80.00   90.00-95.00
Rice millfeed   36.00-42.00      no quote      no quote
Rice hulls      15.00-18.00      no quote      no quote   14.00-16.00

Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady in the south and in California. By-products were uneven in the south and steady in California.

In the south, long grain rice prices were steady, quoted mostly at 19.00-19.50; medium grain prices were steady, quoted mostly at 22.00-25.00; parboiled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly from 20.00-23.50; second heads were steady; brewers were steady. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were steady to 5.00 higher, with tight spot supplies; millfeed was steady to 2.00 higher; hulls with limited sales were steady to 1.00 lower.
 
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly from 25.00-26.00; short grain prices were steady; second heads were steady quoted mostly from 17.00-17.50; brewers were steady, quoted mostly at 16.00. Rice bran was steady; rice hulls were steady, quoted mostly at 15.00.