USDA National Weekly Rice Review
Feb 26,2008 00:00
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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 26.00-26.50 25.00-27.50 25.50-26.50
Medium grain 25.00-26.00 24.75-25.00 27.00-29.00
Short grain 28.50
Parboiled 28.50-31.50 28.50-33.00 38.00
Second heads 16.50-18.00 16.50-17.50 16.50-17.00 22.00-24.00
Brewers 15.00-17.50 15.75-17.50 15.25-15.50 16.50-17.50
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
Rice bran 100.00-118.00 110.00-115.00 105.00-110.00 130.00-160.00
Rice millfeed 52.00-65.00 no quote no quote
Rice hulls 30.00 no quote 10.00-12.00 24.00
Domestic Situation: Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to higher in the south and in California. By-products were uneven, mostly steady to higher in the south and steady to higher in California.
In the south, long grain rice prices were steady to 75 cents higher, quoted mostly at 26.50; medium grain prices were steady; parboiled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly at 28.50; second heads were steady to 50 cents higher; brewers were steady, quoted mostly at 16.50. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were uneven, near steady; millfeed was steady to 2.00 higher; hulls were steady.
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady to firm, quoted mostly at 27.50; short grain prices were steady to 50 cents higher; second heads were steady 1.00 higher; brewers were steady to instances 1.50 lower. Rice bran was 5.00-25.00 higher; rice hulls.