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Market Update: A Year Like No Other Continues
On the ground, all seems to be going as planned now that planting has wrapped up in each state. Sure, there is plenty of consternation about...
Washington DC Updates
House Passes Ukraine Supplemental Assistance On Tuesday, the House introduced and passed a bill for supplemental assistance for the Ukraine...
Delta Farmers Planting Last Acres for 2022
We are finally caught up with planting in Arkansas—a welcome sign to all farmers, processors, and industry members. Despite the return to...
A&M AgriLife Research & Extension, Texas Department of Ag meet with Texas Rice Industry Representatives
On May 13, the new Directors of Texas A&M AgriLife, Cliff Lamb, Director of Research and Rick Avery, Director of Extension, along with Dan Hale,...
USDA announces $6 billion in natural disaster payments
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020...
Biden Administration Appoints Kelly Adkins to Serve as State Executive Director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Texas
The Biden Administration recently appointed Kelly Adkins as the new State Executive Director (SED) for the USDA Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA)....
Market Update: USDA Planting Report is Purely Prospective, Far from Actual
Prices remain firm as planting gets underway. The initial USDA Prospective Plantings report just published this week has a much rosier picture...
Washington, D.C. Update: Debt Ceiling
The House and Senate passed legislation to suspend additional cuts to mandatory programs and initiate the process of raising the debt ceiling. The...
USDA Supply/Demand Report Brings No Surprises
This week, the USDA released the December WASDE report which contained only minor revisions for both U.S. long-grain and medium & short-grain....