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Little Rock, AR    Mon    September 15, 2008    USDA-AR Market News

                       National Weekly Rice Summary
                 (Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas-California)

   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     36.50-40.00     38.50-46.00    36.50-37.50   
Medium grain   44.00-46.50                    40.00-46.50    45.00-52.50 
Short grain                                                  49.00-53.50
Parboiled      39.50-47.00     41.50-52.00          54.00
Second heads         28.00     28.00-29.00    23.00-28.00    35.00-46.50
Brewers        24.00-26.00     26.00-29.00    19.00-26.00    26.00-35.00

Feed by-products (spot prices, dollars per short ton, fob mills).

Rice bran     110.00-130.00  120.00-130.00  100.00-120.00  165.00-180.00
Rice millfeed   52.00-62.00       no quote          55.00  
Rice hulls      25.00-28.00       no quote          15.00          24.00

                             Domestic Situation
   
   Domestic milled rice price quotes were steady to lower in south and steady to 
higher in California this week. By-products were uneven in the south and steady 
to lower in California. 

   In the south, long grain rice price quotes were steady, quoted mostly at 
36.50-39.00; medium grain prices were steady in very tight supply, quoted mostly 
at 44.00-46.50; parboiled quotes were steady to 1.00 lower, quoted mostly at 
39.50-43.00; second heads were steady to 1.00 lower, quoted mostly at 28.00; 
brewers were steady to 1.00 lower, quoted mostly at 25.00-26.00. Rice by-
products: Offers for rice bran were steady to instances 20.00 higher; millfeed 
was steady; hulls were steady to 2.00 lower.

   In California, medium grain milled rice prices were steady to 3.50 higher, 
quoted mostly at 46.50-52.50; short grain prices were steady to 3.50 higher; 
second heads were steady to 2.50 higher, quoted mostly at 35.00-37.00; brewers 
were steady to 6.00 lower, quoted mostly at 26.00-28.00. Rice bran was steady to 
10.00 lower; rice hulls were steady.          

Source:   USDA-AR Extension Service, Little Rock, AR
          Steve Cheney   Phone 501-671-2200

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