USDA Weekly Rice Review

Domestic shipment: 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      19.75-20.00   20.00-24.75         20.00
Medium grain    23.00-24.50                 22.00-24.50   26.50-28.00
Short grain                                               28.00-28.50
Parboiled       22.00-25.00   23.50-31.00         31.50
Second heads    16.50-17.00   16.00-16.50   16.00-16.50   19.00-22.50
Brewers         15.00-16.00   15.00-16.00   15.00-15.50   15.75-18.00
 
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
 
Rice bran       90.00-110.00 90.00-110.00  95.00-100.00        110.00
Rice millfeed    42.00-49.00  38.00-40.00         40.00
Rice hulls       22.00-27.00        13.00      no quote         22.00
 

Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to higher in the south and in California. By-products were steady in the south and in steady to higher California.
 
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly at 19.75-20.00; medium grain prices were steady, quoted mostly at 23.00-24.50; parboiled rice prices were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly from 22.00-25.00; second heads were steady, quoted mostly at 16.00-16.50; brewers were steady to instances 1.00 lower, quoted mostly at 15.50-16.00. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were steady; millfeed was steady; hulls were steady.
 
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady to firm, quoted mostly at 27.00; short grain prices were steady to 50 cents higher; second heads were steady, quoted mostly at 18.50-19.00; brewers were steady, quoted mostly at 15.75-16.00. Rice bran was 5.00 higher; rice hulls were steady.