# RICEPLUS MAGAZINE: 04/21/18

> 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.

- Date: 2018-04-21 · published 2018-04-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65581-riceplus-magazine-04-21-18
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md)

## Why it matters

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.

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2022-10-11 | [Global rice prices are now at an 18-month high](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39207-global-rice-prices-are-now-at-an-18-month-high.md) | -0.3% | +4.2% |
| RICE | 2016-11-11 | [Rice prices plunge to 21-yr low - The Korea Herald](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12237-rice-prices-plunge-to-21-yr-low-the-korea-herald.md) | +0.5% | +2.8% |
| RICE | 2018-04-18 | [‘Cheap NFA rice missing in markets’](https://feedsoft.ai/events/65583-cheap-nfa-rice-missing-in-markets.md) | -0.2% | -5.1% |
| RICE | 2019-11-05 | [The rice cartel](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56136-the-rice-cartel.md) | +1.7% | +6.5% |
| RICE | 2024-06-01 | [Govt Mulls Lifting Rice Export Restrictions Amid Surplus Stocks](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30201-govt-mulls-lifting-rice-export-restrictions-amid-surplus-stocks.md) | +2.8% | -4.0% |

## Sources

- riceplusmagazine.blogspot.com: http://riceplusmagazine.blogspot.com/2018_04_21_archive.html

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