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U.S. rice millers and farmers are counting on Kenya’s United Nations-sanctioned plan to lead an international force to bring stability to Haiti – the largest foreign market for U.S. milled rice.
Legislation is being introduced in the House and Senate to create a task force composed of officials with USDA and the U.S. Trade Representative's Office to identify agricultural trade barriers such as India’s farm subsidies that should be challenged at the World Trade Organization.
Mississippi River water levels are at historic lows – dropping even below where they were last year when barge transport came to a complete halt – and that means increased costs and slower delivery for farmers that need to get their crops to the Gulf.
Haiti is the largest foreign market for U.S. milled long grain rice and the escalation of gang violence there is threatening the ability of the U.S. to export grain to the country.
On the news that market manipulator and largest exporter of rice in the world, India, has slapped an export ban on all non-basmati rice, people in the United States began