USDA Weekly Rice Review - Jun 18
Jun 19,2007 00:00 by newseditor

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      19.00-19.25   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       78.00-85.00   83.00-85.00   70.00-75.00   85.00-90.00
Rice millfeed         36.00   33.00-35.00      no quote
Rice hulls            15.00         10.00      no quote   14.00-16.00
 


Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to instances higher in the
south and steady in California. By-products were uneven in the south and steady in California.
 
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly at 19.00-19.25; medium grain prices were steady, quoted mostly at 22.00-25.00; parboiled rice prices were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly from 20.00-23.50; second heads were steady; brewers were steady to instances 25  cents higher. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran
were uneven, mostly steady, with tight spot supplies; millfeed was  mostly steady; hulls with limited sales were steady.
 
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.