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Soybeans aren’t the only legumes China is interested in buying.

Two countries reach agreement on final protocol, USDA says.

Rice prices have declined for several years because of competition from huge rice producers like Vietnam and Thailand as well as increases in agricultural productivity that have boosted supplies. Over the past few decades, hundreds of rice farmers in Southeast Texas have given up the crop entirely but that could soon change.

Here’s the latest from the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates:

While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage.

UPDATED Friday AM: Hurricane Harvey was upgraded to a Category 2 hurricane this morning. The National Weather Service expects the area of impact to be “uninhabitable for weeks or months.”

In the early 1900s, cotton was king around Enterprise, Ala., and much of the southern U.S. But a silent southern invasion was just beginning.

As weeds become more resistant to herbicides, plant breeders are faced with the challenge of developing new varieties that are resistant to new or older herbicides. A new rice variety being released by rice researchers at the Louisiana State University (LSU) AgCenter is showing promise.

Too much supply even with record peanut butter, snack demand.

Maintains plan to cut corn stockpile and acreage in 2017.