USDA National Weekly Rice Review
Nov 12,2007 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      20.00-22.00   20.50-24.75   20.00-22.00
Medium grain    23.00-24.50                 22.00-24.50   26.50-28.00
Short grain                                               28.00-28.50
Parboiled       23.50-26.50   24.00-31.00         31.50
Second heads    16.00-17.50         16.50         16.00   19.50-22.50
Brewers         14.00-17.00   15.75-16.50   14.00-15.50   16.00-18.00
 
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
 
Rice bran       88.00-110.00 87.00-110.00  90.00-100.00        105.00
Rice millfeed    48.00-50.00  40.00-45.00         43.00
Rice hulls       20.00-22.00  10.00-13.00      no quote         24.00

 

Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to higher in the south and steady in California. By-products were mostly steady in the south and in steady to lower California.
 
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to 1.50 higher, quoted mostly at 20.50; medium grain prices were steady, quoted mostly at 23.00-24.50; parboiled rice prices were steady to instances 1.00 higher, quoted mostly from 23.50-25.00; second heads were uneven, quoted mostly at 16.00-16.50; brewers were uneven, quoted mostly at 15.50-16.50. Rice by- products: Offers for rice bran were steady; millfeed was mostly steady to 3.00 higher; hulls were steady.
 
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly at 27.00; short grain prices were steady; second heads were steady to instances 50 cents higher, quoted mostly at 19.50-20.00; brewers were steady, quoted mostly at 16.00. Rice bran was 5.00 lower; rice hulls were steady.