House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith on Monday urged the International Trade Commission, an independent panel that advises Congress and the executive branch, to investigate the U.S. rice industry s competitiveness on the world stage.
USA Rice’s board of directors have tapped Peter Bachmann as the next CEO of the organization, succeeding Betsy Ward, who has been at the helm for the last 16 years.
USDA’s plan to spend $1.4 billion to pay for a new export promotion program will provide the increase in market development funding that commodity groups have been trying to get through the farm bill, says Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.
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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