p class=”headline”>USDA: Record Rice Production

The 2010 U.S. rice crop may be 11% larger than the 2009-10 crop; 5% above the previous record in 2004-05, according to USDA projections.

U.S. rice producers are expected to produce a record crop of 244 million hundredweight in 2010, based on the largest estimated acreage since 1999 and a projected near-record average rice yield of 7,202 pounds per acre, according to USDA’s May 11 Crop Production Report and World Supply and Demand Estimate.