Rice Producers Seek Emergency Assistance and Record HPAI Bird Deaths - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST - AGInfo Ag Information Network

From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.

**The U.S. is simply a apical 5 exporter of high-value atom and much than 80% of the atom we devour is sustainably grown present connected household farms.

But, according to www.agrimarketing.com, a bid of challenges, some manmade and environmental, has led to a petition for $400 cardinal successful exigency assistance.

USA Rice Chair, Kirk Satterfield says, successful confederate atom increasing states, farmers are being pushed to the breaking constituent by input costs and artificially debased marketplace prices.

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**U.S. workplace producers received 14.5 cents per dollar spent connected domestically produced nutrient successful 2021, down a penny from 2020.

The USDA’s Economic Research Service reports, that’s the lowest recorded workplace stock worth successful astir 3 decades.

The remaining information of the nutrient dollar, the selling share, covers the costs of getting domestically produced nutrient from farms to points of purchase, including packaging, transportation, processing, and income to consumers.

**A grounds 50.54 cardinal birds successful home flocks person died of highly pathogenic avian influenza, oregon were culled to forestall dispersed of the illness since February, according to USDA data.

www.agriculture.com reports, the erstwhile grounds of 50.4 cardinal birds was acceptable successful the 2014-15 outbreak, described by the USDA arsenic “arguably the astir important carnal wellness lawsuit successful U.S. history.”

The outbreaks person driven up ovum and turkey prices, but supplies person remained adequate.

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