The weather pattern over California this week brought near normal conditions for the middle of August. ...
America has been celebrating the contributions of the U.S. rice industry for 18 years through the National Rice Month program sponsored by the USA Rice Federation....
Scholarship opportunities await high school students in rice-growing communities as they head back to school. ...
The annual California Rice Field Day will be held Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008, at the Rice Experiment Station (RES), Biggs, Calif. ...
A rice field tour covering weed resistance management and water quality will be held in Northern California, Aug. 21, 2008....
U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab’s insistence, during the World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva that ended in deadlock, that U.S. offers to reduce certain U.S. farm support programs be met with corresponding increases in foreign market access for U.S. agriculture was right for America, USA Rice Federation officials said today....
U.S. negotiators this week announced a new offer of a $15 billion cap in the World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on the broadest level of U.S. farm supports called overall trade distorting support or OTDS, according to a report from USA Rice Federation....
The USA Rice Federation board of directors elected James W. (Jamie) Warshaw, chief executive officer of Farmers Rice Milling Co., to be its next chairman....
Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began producing a series of geographic information system (GIS)-based maps of the damaged agricultural areas to accompany its commodity intelligence reports. ...
By Betsy Ward
President and CEO
USA Rice Federation
Near panic ensued for almost two weeks as intense media attention about a global rice shortage and the decision by some Sam’s Club and Costco stores to limit rice purchases for their customers caused shoppers in some areas in the United States to clear the shelves of rice. ...
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