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USA Rice Attends Social Media Summit
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CHICAGO, IL -- Communications professionals from across the country gathered here earlier this month for a two-day Visual Communications and Infographics Summit. USA Rice staff joined the more than 75 representatives from a wide array of fields that were in attendance for the interactive workshop that featured eleven speakers from well-known organizations.
The conference focused on the latest visual storytelling techniques to boost engagement across various social media platforms. Representatives from non-profits, health care industries, digital creative agencies, and corporate companies shared their strategies on how to create and distribute branded content in an engaging way.
A portion of the conference focused on methods for creating quality videos, photography, and infographics.
"Social media provides a free portal to directly communicate with consumers," said Michael Klein, USA Rice's vice president of marketing and communications. "It gives USA Rice an opportunity to deliver our key messages about the importance of the U.S. rice industry to a wide audience of people encouraging them to think rice the next time they are at the grocery store, dining out, or prepping meals in their family kitchen."
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Weekly Rice Sales, Exports Reported
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WASHINGTON, DC -- Net rice sales of 35,000 MT for 2015/2016 were reported for Canada (12,800 MT), Honduras (8,800 MT, including 4,700 MT switched from unknown destinations), Haiti (7,100 MT), Jordan (3,200 MT), and Mexico (1,800 MT), according to today's Export Sales Highlights report. Decreases were reported for unknown destinations (2,500 MT).
Exports for 43,100 MT were reported to Mexico (25,300 MT), Haiti (7,100 MT), Honduras (4,800 MT), Canada (3,000 MT), and Saudi Arabia (600 MT).
This summary is based on reports from exporters from the period August 7-13, 2015.
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| CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures | CME Group (Prelim): Closing Rough Rice Futures for August 20
| September 2015 | $11.635 |
- $0.265
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November 2015
| $11.915 |
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January 2016
| $12.205 |
- $0.260
| | March 2016 | $12.445 |
- $0.250
| | May 2016 | $12.690 |
- $0.235
| | July 2016 | $12.700 |
- $0.225
| September 2016
| $11.710
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- $0.225
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