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America's rice harvest is forecast to fall to its lowest level in 33 years. CBOT rough rice futures, the benchmark for US long-grain rice before milling, are surging higher at the end of summer after rising 69% so far this year.
USDA forecasts total production at 158.2 million hundredweight, roughly 23% below last year's 206.7 million. Harvested acreage is projected at just 2.057 million acres, the lowest since the 1972/73 season.
"While beginning stocks are raised 4.6 million cwt to a 40-year high of 58.4 million cwt, production is reduced 0.2 million cwt to 158.2 million, a 33-year low, as a reduced forecast for harvested area more than offsets a higher yield," USDA wrote in a report.
The good news is that a meaningful supply buffer remains, with the year beginning with 58.4 million hundredweight in inventories, a 40-year high. This will provide a cushion against any lost production.
Even with that buffer, USDA expects ending inventories to shrink to 40.4 million hundredweight, down 31% from a year earlier. Its forecast for the all-rice season-average farm price is $14.90 per hundredweight, about 20% above the previous year.
USDA said there was a "notable shift to a relatively tight U.S. supply situation" from last year's harvest to this year's.
That is being reflected in CBOT rough rice futures, which have jumped 69% so far this year to $16 per hundredweight and could be on track to test the $19.65 high reached in the summer of 2023.
CBOT tracks US long-grain rough rice. International prices, especially in Thailand, have also risen.
Goldman analysts estimate this El Niño could push global food commodity prices up more than 15%.
It is not a great sign when the grain that feeds the world is soaring in price in multiple regions, suggesting further food inflation pressure on household budgets.
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Mullin: DHS Investigating 1,620 Non-Citizen Voter Fraud Cases
Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness,
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating 1,620 cases of alleged voter fraud involving noncitizens and reviewing hundreds of thousands of additional cases, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said.
Mullin told Fox News that DHS has made 151 arrests and is examining another 300,000 cases based on information compiled from state voter rolls.
"We're scrubbing them. We're comparing them to those that are in the country illegally, those that are legal permanent residents and those that are citizens" to determine whether they voted legally, Mullin told Fox News contributor Kayleigh McEnany.
The investigation puts renewed attention on election integrity and the participation of noncitizens in U.S. elections, an issue President Donald Trump has repeatedly raised.
According to Mullin, the cases uncovered by DHS support Trump's longstanding contention that election fraud has occurred.
"We continue to see that. Every single vote, Kayleigh, that we talk about, that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered and able to vote," Mullin said.
DHS is examining the additional cases to determine whether individuals identified on state voter rolls were citizens, legal permanent residents or in the country illegally, according to Mullin.
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Copper has almost retraced the selloff sparked earlier this month, following Reuters' report that the White House's "copper tariff plan stalls amid affordability concerns." Prices are back near record highs in London as Bloomberg reports tightening supplies in China's physical market, reinforcing scarcity concerns.
Three-month futures on the London Metal Exchange rose .7% to $14,763 a ton, putting the industrial metal within striking distance of its September 10 record of $14,875.
The driver, according to the outlet, is new Shanghai Metals Market data showing shrinking Chinese inventories. Those inventories fell to 43,900 tons, the lowest since 2023.
This year's rally follows a volatile stretch of upside price action, as uncertainty over potential US import tariffs on copper sent record inflows into US warehouses and tightened availability elsewhere.
We have highlighted how deteriorating conditions across global mining operations are adding to supply woes in the physical market for the industrial metal.
Copper, critical for AI and power grid buildouts, has climbed 18% this year and 70% since its April 2025 lows, according to Bloomberg data.
Veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie has warned repeatedly that "physical economy is repricing scarcity in the real world."
With copper approaching record highs, The Market Ear's latest technical analysis report examines the price levels to watch for confirmation of a breakout (read here).
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