USDA National Weekly Rice Review
Feb 05,2008 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     24.00-24.50    23.75-27.00   22.75-24.50
Medium grain   24.00-25.00                  22.00-24.50   27.00-29.00
Short grain                                               28.00-28.50
Parboiled      26.50-29.00    26.50-33.00         34.50
Second heads   16.00-17.50    16.50-17.00         16.00   22.00-23.00
Brewers        15.00-17.00    15.75-17.00   15.25-15.50   16.50-19.00
 
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
 
Rice bran     100.00-115.00 105.00-120.00 103.00-105.00        125.00
Rice millfeed   52.00-62.00      no quote         50.00
Rice hulls            30.00      no quote         10.00         24.00

 

Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to higher in the south and steady in California. By-products were uneven, mostly steady in the south and steady to higher in California.
 
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to 2.00 higher, quoted mostly from 24.00-24.50; medium grain prices were mostly steady, instances 50 cents higher; parboiled rice prices were mostly steady, instances 1.00 higher, quoted mostly at 26.50-28.00; second heads were steady; brewers were steady, quoted mostly at 15.25-16.50. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were mostly steady; millfeed was steady to 2.00 higher; hulls were steady.
 
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly at 27.00-27.50; short grain prices were steady; second heads were steady; brewers were steady to 50 cents higher, quoted mostly at 16.50. Rice bran was 15.00-20.00 higher; rice hulls were steady.