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Promote National Rice Month and Earn Scholarship Money
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ARLINGTON, VA -- USA Rice encourages high school seniors throughout rice country to invest the waning days of summer vacation in planning an innovative promotion campaign for September, National Rice Month (NRM). Three scholarship prizes, sponsored by Dow AgroSciences, totaling $8,500 are available. The grand prize is a $4,000 scholarship and a trip to the 2015 USA Rice Outlook Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the scholarship presentation. The second-place winner will receive $3,000 and third-place, $1,500.
High school graduating students in the 2015-16 school year who live in rice-growing states -- Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas -- can qualify to enter by conducting a promotion campaign in their local communities during September with U.S.-grown rice as the central theme. Scholarship entries will be judged on their creativity and impact in promoting U.S.-grown rice, NRM, and the importance of rice in their state.
Entries are due October 15. Applicants can submit a synopsis of their promotion in a variety of ways, including in video format.
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Crop Progress: 2015 Crop 88 Percent Headed
| WASHINGTON, DC -- Eighty-eight percent of the nation's 2015 rice acreage is headed, according to today's U.S. Department of Agriculture's Crop Progress Report.
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Rice Headed, Selected States
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State
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August 16, 2014
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August 9, 2015
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August 16, 2015
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2010-2014 average
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Percent
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Arkansas
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80
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76
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88
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86
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California
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85
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79
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80
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55
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Louisiana
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98
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96
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98
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98
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Mississippi
| 91
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88
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95
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90
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Missouri
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77
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70
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78
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72
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Texas
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97
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95
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97
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97
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Six States
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86
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81
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88
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82
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| CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures | CME Group (Preliminary): Closing Rough Rice Futures for August 17
September 2015
| $11.995 |
+ $0.175
| November 2015
| $12.275 |
+ $0.180
| January 2016
| $12.570 |
+ $0.180
| March 2016
| $12.775 |
+ $0.150
| May 2016
| $13.005 |
+ $0.140
| July 2016
| $13.005 |
+ $0.140
| September 2016
| $11.950 |
+ $0.065
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Around the Country
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Tariffs and Trade
"Until about 2003 or 2004 that ration amount was 5 pounds per person," says Terry Harris, senior vice president for marketing and risk management at Riceland Foods in Stuttgart, Ark. "It was actually raised to 7 pounds in 2004, but rice is still not always available for the people of Cuba."
Science and Technology
As part of the Newton Fund, TGAC has been awarded over £50,000 by The British Council to develop the bioinformatics capabilities. These will inform next-generation rice genomics in Vietnam to aid precision breeding for improvement of crops by exploring 48 local rice varieties.
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