USDA National Weekly Rice Review
Mar 24,2008 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     30.50-31.00    28.50-31.00   29.50-30.50
Medium grain   27.50-31.00                  27.50-29.00   27.50-29.00
Short grain                                               28.50-29.50
Parboiled      32.50-35.00    30.50-38.00         40.00
Second heads   19.00-20.00    19.00-20.00   18.00-19.00   22.00-24.00
Brewers        17.00-19.00    18.00-20.00   15.00-18.00   17.50-18.00
 
Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).
 
Rice bran     115.00-120.00        125.00        110.00 130.00-160.00
Rice millfeed         65.00      no quote      no quote
Rice hulls         no quote   12.00-15.00      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 steady in California.
 
In the south, long grain rice prices were uneven ranging 1.00 lower to 2.00 higher, mostly steady to 2.00 higher, quoted mostly at 30.00-31.00; medium grain prices were steady to 1.00 higher; parboiled rice prices were steady to 3.00 higher, quoted mostly at 32.50-33.00; second heads were steady to 1.00 higher; brewers were unevenly 50 cents lower to 2.00 higher, quoted mostly at 17.00- 19.00. Rice by-products: Offers for rice bran were steady; millfeed was mostly steady; hulls were untested.
 
In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady, quoted mostly at 27.50-28.00; short grain prices were steady; second heads were steady; brewers were steady. Rice bran was steady; rice hulls were steady.