NASS: Rice Growers Had Record Crop Year In 2010

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its Crop Production Historical Track Records report, showing that U.S. rice growers broke the overall crop-growing record last year. Rice growers produced 24.3 billion pounds of rice in 2010, surpassing the previous record high of 23.2 billion pounds set in 2004.

In 2009, the record highs for production of corn and soybeans, the nation’s two predominant commodities, were broken. That year growers harvested 3.36 billion bushels of soybeans, beating the previous record by 5%. Corn growers broke their own record by producing 13.1 billion bushels that same year. ◆