Overview
Rice is produced worldwide and is the primary staple for more than half the world's population. In the United States, rice farming is a high-cost, high-yielding, large-scale production sector that depends on the global market for almost half its annual sales. Domestically, per capita rice consumption—including
rice used in beer—has risen sharply over the past 25 years. ERS analyzes events in the domestic and global rice markets that influence supply, demand, trade, and prices.
Feature
Rice Backgrounder
(December 2006) reports that U.S. rice farming is a high-cost, large-scale
operation. While domestic disappearance continues to increase,
the outlook for rice farm incomes is tempered by higher
production costs and continued strong competition in many
international markets from lower cost Asian exporters.
Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices (May 2008) explores the many factors that have contributed to the runup in food commodity prices over the last 2 years.
Recommended Readings
USDA Rice Projections, 2008-17 (April 2008) provides background on supply and demand trends for rice, underlying the long-term projections in USDA Agricultural Projections to 2017 (February 2008), and summarizes key results for the U.S. rice sector.
Rice
Yearbook (annually in November) provides in-depth information and analysis
of U.S. and international rice markets that include a
recap of the previous market year and the outlook for
the coming year. The domestic section focuses on U.S.
production, export markets, and prices. The global section
looks at major importers and describes factors driving
international trends.
Indian Wheat and Rice
Sector Policies and the Implications of Reform (May 2007) suggests
that future developments in India’s food grain sector
will be shaped by how policies adapt to the sector’s
new economic environment. Some changes, such as reducing
price supports and the scope of government food grain
operations, would likely cut government costs, benefit
consumers, allow a larger private sector role in the domestic
market, and increase reliance on trade.
See all recommended
readings...
Recommended Data Products
Monthly Tables from Rice Outlook
contain the latest data on production, use, prices, and
trade.
Rice
Yearbook Tables provide key historical data on U.S. and world
rice acreage, supply, demand, and prices.
Commodity Costs and Returns have been estimated for major field crop and livestock enterprises each year since 1975. Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, sugar beets, milk, hogs, and cow-calf.
Commodity and Food Elasticities Database allows queriable searches of income, expenditure, and own- and cross-price elasticities for specific commodities and countries, which can be ranked and sorted. The elasticities are mainly from U.S. research on consumer demand published in working papers, dissertations, and peer-reviewed journals. The greatest number of demand studies are for vegetables, fruits, meat, and grocery products in the United States and China.
Foreign Agricultural Trade of
the United States (FATUS) provides U.S. agricultural
exports and imports, volume and value, by country, by
commodity, and by calendar year, fiscal year, and month,
for varying periods, such as 1989
to the present. Updated monthly or annually.
Production,
Supply, and Distribution (PS&D) contains official
USDA data on production, supply, and distribution of agricultural
commodities for the United States and major importing
and exporting countries. The database provides projections
for the coming year and historical data for more than
200 countries and major crop, livestock, fishery, and
forest products.
Newsletter
Rice
Outlook provides monthly updates on current market
developments and their influence on the rice sector, with
data on production, consumption, prices, and trade.
Related Briefing Rooms
Agricultural Baseline Projections
U.S. Agricultural Trade
Farm and Commodity
Policy
Farm Income and Costs
Farm Structure
World Trade Organization
(WTO)
Related Links
Websites of other USDA agencies and universities contain
valuable information on rice.
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Maps and Images Gallery
Charts from Rice Outlook
contain the latest data on production, use, trade, and
prices for U.S. and global markets.
View maps from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service of harvested
acres by county and yield
per harvested acre.
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