[Wally_Kalbacken]

Rice too damn high! Rice too damn high!

[Jonty30]

One word. China.

[RockyTx]

price of rice is 17.50 USD per hundredweight,
which is not that far from recent averages

perhaps this story was made up by AI

[LadyDoc]

They have it wrong. We grow rice here in the Philippines.
The price if growing rice has skyrocketed due to the huge increase in the price of fertilizer (we use organic fertilizer and that has gone up too).

Then add the increase in the price of diesel used by handplows, harvesters, threshers, irrigation pumps, milling and transport to market.

We actually had a good harvest but might not make a profit this growing season