Final 2017 Rice Farming Yields Rice Farming Updates
Here they are: The RFC total field yields for the 2017 crop. I hope you can understand the spreadsheet. If you have any questions, please contact me. ...
Holidays Approach as Second Crop is Harvested Rice Farming Update
First of all, there are 41 days before Christmas!!! Time is flying by, please do not procrastinate like yours truly. That makes for a tough Christmas...
Wharton County Summer Rice Harvest Update Rice Farming Update
Combines and pickers are running at full speed once again. The rains of early August slowed or stopped the rice harvest for several days. I have been ...
Summer is Here, Bringing Hurricane Season Rice Farming Update
It is hard to believe that today is the third day of summer. The last few mornings have not felt like summer. Of course, by the afternoon with the hea...
Marketing Update & Crop Outlook Rice Farming Update
REMEMBER the blood drive for Clayton Bruton on Friday, June 16 from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the El Campo Volunteer Fire Department Training Field of...
Iraq Purchases 30,000 metric tons of U.S. Rice Rice Farming Update
The big news this week comes from Iraq. Iraq has purchased 30,000 metric tons of U. S. milled long grain rice. The order was sold by ADM for July 20...
No Land, No Water: Texas Fights for Wide Opens Spaces
As rice farmers, ranchers, and ag-enthusiasts, we take great pride in Texas’ vast open spaces, as well as the heritage that comes with working these l...
Ruby Jean’s Chicken Pilaf Cooking with Rice Farmers Coop
This recipe was entered in the Rice Dish Contest at the 1986 Wharton County Rice Clinic by Ruby Jean Rod, wife of Andrew Rod and mother of Glen and St...
May 2017: Rice Unchanged, Local Rain Needed! Rice Farming Update
The rice market has not changed any since last week. Rice still in the producers’ possession on this side of Houston is in less than 60,000 cwt. Of th...
May 2017: Texas and Arkansas Rice Market Rice Farming Update
Rusty Bergstrom, Rice Marketing Association, reports that the local rice market is non-existent. There are only a handful of lots that have not been s...