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Todays News Headlines

Asian rice markets slow due to poor demand Taiwan: Taiwan Lifts Longstanding Ban on U.S. Long Grain Rice and Schedules Tender Importers from 15 countries meet Thai exporters Payouts for rice farmers expected to help increase GDP by 0.6% Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu directs paddy farmers to be paid within 48 hours Bhopal Gas Tragedy: 350 tonnes of waste and factory deaths that no one even counts Taiwan Opens Market for U.S. Long Grain Rice USTR Appeals WTO October COOL Rule Taiwan Announces Long Grain Tenders CME Group/Closing Rough Rice Futures Arkansas cotton and rice crops expected to finish strong Farmers get relief from rice diseases in 2014 Lowcountry Rice Wine Edges Toward a Revival Millers to supply superfine rice to hostels Odisha mulls incentives to boost rice processing

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Taiwan Opens Market for U.S.

Long Grain Rice

TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- The American

Institute of Taiwan's Agricultural Affairs

Office reported that Taiwan authorities have

lifted the longstanding ban on U.S. long

grain rice. Taiwan imposed an import ban

on U.S. long grain rice immediately after the

LibertyLink incident in August 2006.

Since then, the issue has been raised in

several bilateral engagements by the U.S.

side, both technically and under the Trade

and Investment Framework Agreement

annual meetings.Taiwan's Agriculture and

Food Agency has also scheduled two tenders

of U.S.-origin long grain brown rice for

December 10, with delivery in the May-June

2015 time frame. This will be the first U.S.

long grain rice tender since Taiwan joined

the WTO in January 2002 and opened its

market for rice imports.

One tender (1,500 MT) has a specification

for minimum amylose content. It is

presumed this will be destined for making

popular local products such as rice noodles

and rice cakes. The long grain rice without

minimum amylose content specifications

will likely be used as table rice."Reportedly,

consumer appetites in Taiwan are

changing," said Jim Guinn, USA Rice

Federation vice president of international

promotion. "They seem to be more

accepting of long grain products in addition

to the medium and short grain that is

traditionally consumed there. Taiwan also

recently purchased southern medium grain

rice for the first time in several years."

Contact: Deborah Willenborg (703) 236-1444

USTR Appeals WTO October

COOL Rule

WASHINGTON,

DC -- Last Friday,

the United States

Trade

Representative

(USTR) filed an

appeal to the World

Trade

Organization's

(WTO) October ruling that the U.S. Country

of Origin Labeling (COOL) rule was a

violation of United States' WTO

obligations. This means that the WTO's

appellate body has 60 days to report on the

appeal and, based on the outcome of that

report, WTO arbitration could begin as early

as April 2015 if the United States remains

out of compliance and Canada and Mexico

continue to seek trade retaliation.

The COOL rule mandates that muscle cuts

of meat be labeled for the country of origin

where the animal was born, raised, and

slaughtered, which foreign meat and

livestock suppliers claim treats their goods

unfairly. Canada and Mexico brought a

complaint against the United States to the

WTO in August 2013. The U.S. decision to

appeal the October ruling is another in a

series of steps that will have to occur before

Canada and Mexico are given permission by

the WTO to retaliate against imports from

the United States. At this point, retaliation

against U.S. products looks unlikely until

the last quarter of 2015, though Canada has

already released a list of U.S. products that

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would face a 100 percent duty, including

U.S.-grown rice.

"We are obviously watching this issue very

closely because of the potential impact on

U.S. rice exports to Canada," said Bob

Cummings, USA Rice Federation

COO. "As a member of the COOL Reform

Coalition, we are urging the U.S.

government to come into compliance with

its WTO obligations so as to avoid

retaliation."

Contact: Kristen Dayton (703) 236-1464

Source with thanks USA Rice Federation

Taiwan Announces Long Grain

Tenders

Tender Specifications:

1. Long grain brown rice 2. Length of kernel: 6.61

mm~7.5mm, the ratio of length to

width of whole kernel:

3.0. Method of test for length and shape: randomly sample 30

kernels from sound kernels,

measure the length and width of

each kernels, then take the average

of the measurement. The weight

percentage of out of length

standard kernels must be under 30

percent and the kernels which

length less than 6.2 mm must be

under 5 percent.

3. Amylose content: 24 percent (for Tender GF4-103-118 only

[1,500 MT])

4. Quantity: 1,500 mt each

Maximum

Limit

Moisture 14.5%

Impurity 0.3%

Broken kernels 6.0%

Damaged kernels 3.0%

Heat damaged kernels 0.3%

Sprouted kernels 0.8%

Immature kernels,

include rice screening

Total not to

exceed 13%

Chalky kernels Total not to

exceed 13%

Off-type kernels 3.0%

Paddy 0.4%

Well milled kernels 0.0%

Minimum

Limit

Degree of freshness

(pH)

6.7

Source with thanks USA Rice Federation

CME Group/Closing

Rough Rice Futures

CME Group (Preliminary): Closing Rough Rice

Futures for December 2

Month Price Net Change

January 2015 $12.185 + $0.045

March 2015 $12.450 + $0.045

May 2015 $12.700 + $0.050

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July 2015 $12.900 + $0.050

September 2015 $12.150 + $0.050

November 2015 $12.050 + $0.050

January 2016 $12.050 + $0.050

Source with thanks USA Rice Federation

Arkansas cotton and rice

crops expected to finish

strong

Posted: Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:00

am

As the 2014 rice and cotton harvests draw to

a close, a mild summer and fall, coupled

with heavy rainfall throughout the state,

appear to have delivered surprisingly high

yields for both rice and cotton.According to

the National Agricultural Statistics Service,

Arkansas cotton crop was 98 percent harvested, ahead of the five-year average of

93 percent, and rice harvest was complete,

just 1 point ahead of the 99 percent five-year

average.

Soybeans were near completion at 96

percent.Jarrod Hardke, an extension rice

agronomist for the University of Arkansas

System Division of Agriculture based at

Stuttgart, said record low temperatures in

June, July and August in some areas of the

state were a strong force in shaping the 2014

crops.

That really had a significant impact on our overall rice crop, and ultimately, our yields, Hardke said. He said significant temperature

drops can affect rice crops in different ways

depending on when they occur in the plants growing cycle.If those very stressful, low temperatures occur just after mid-season,

thats actually the time when those plants are determining how many grains theyre going to attempt to create to begin with, and

how many branches will be on that panicle, Hardke said. If those conditions occur when we begin to head, and at pollination, it

can affect or inhibit pollination you have a fertility problem and you can get blanks.

There will be kernels that dont pollinate, and dont fill at all.The typical window for planting rice throughout the Arkansas Delta

region spans from late March until mid-

June, although some fields in 2014 were

planted as early as March 10 and as late as

July 8, Hardke said. Rice harvest is heavily

temperature dependent, and can range from

mid-August to early October, or even

beyond, he said.Despite several periods of

unusually low overnight summer

temperatures, the ag statistics service has

estimated that the states 2014 rice yield at 167.3 bushels per acre, just shy of 2013s record-breaking 168 bushels per acre

average. Hardke said final harvest numbers

released by NASS in January wil