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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue named Ken Isley as Foreign Agricultural Service administrator, Joel Baxley as Rural Housing Service administrator, and Martin Barbre as Risk Management Agency administrator. The FAS role oversees export promotion programs such as the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development.
Personnel changes at USDA's export and risk-management agencies have little direct effect on rice supply, demand or prices. They could affect how overseas market development and crop insurance programs are run over time.
riceplusmagazine.blogspot.comRiceplus MagazineApr 21, 2018After 468 past policy events, Rough Rice moved a median +0.3% over 5 sessions (53% higher; middle half -2.0% to +2.0%), and +0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
