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 19.00-20.00 19.00-23.50 18.50-19.00
Medium grain 23.00-25.00 22.00-25.00 26.50-28.00
Short grain 28.00
Parboiled 21.00-25.00 23.50-31.00 31.50
Second heads 16.50-17.00 15.00-16.50 15.00-16.50 18.50-22.50
Brewers 15.50-16.50 15.00-16.00 15.00-16.00 15.75-18.00
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
Rice bran 90.00-100.00 90.00-110.00 90.00-100.00 105.00
mostly 90.00-95.00
Rice millfeed 38.00-40.00 33.00-35.00 32.00-35.00
Rice hulls 15.00-20.00 10.00 no quote 18.00
Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to higher in the south and in California. By-products were uneven in the south, and higher in California.
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to instances 25 cents higher, quoted mostly at 19.00-19.50; medium grain prices were steady to instances 3.00 higher; quoted mostly at 23.00-25.00; parboiled rice prices were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly from 21.00-25.00; second heads were steady to 50 cents higher, quoted mostly at 16.50; brewers were steady to instances 50 cents higher. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were steady to 10.00 higher; millfeed was mostly steady to 5.00 higher; hulls were mostly steady.
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly from 26.50-27.00; short grain prices were steady; second heads were steady to 50 cents higher quoted mostly at 18.50-19.00; brewers were steady to 25 cents higher, quoted mostly at 15.75-16.00. Rice bran was 5.00-10.00 higher; rice hulls were 2.00-4.00 higher.