With another harvest mostly complete, rice production seems to have held strong, but rising costs keep the squeeze on local producers and a second crop might be out of reach for producers.
Texas is traditionally in the top five in rice producing states, with Texas’ five-year average sitting at 178,000 acres.
Wharton County producers reported a little over 39,000 acres of rice production, 33,558 acres were for grain that could be ratooned and 5,617 was for seed that won’t be, as reported by the USDA.