# More US Rice Could Be Moving Into Turkey — Louisiana Farm Bureau News

> USA Rice is working to expand US medium-grain rice sales to Turkey, where the Jupiter variety has found price-sensitive buyers. Turkish authorities previously refused one or two shipments after finding GMO corn and soybean cross-contamination.

- Date: 2016-12-21 · published 2016-12-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Turkey · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/73545-more-us-rice-could-be-moving-into-turkey-louisiana-farm-bureau-news
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md)

## Why it matters

Expanded Turkish demand for US medium-grain rice would be a modest support for US rice exports, but GMO contamination rules are a risk to US grain shipments.

## Read by commodity

- RICE: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RICE | 2019-06-12 | [USA Rice Talks Trade in Louisiana — Louisiana Farm Bureau News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/58662-usa-rice-talks-trade-in-louisiana-louisiana-farm-bureau-news.md) | -0.1% | +0.7% |
| RICE | 2017-11-29 | [Rice Exports Still Lag — Louisiana Farm Bureau News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/68057-rice-exports-still-lag-louisiana-farm-bureau-news.md) | +0.2% | -4.2% |
| RICE | 2020-02-13 | [Louisiana Rice Farmers hear optimistic Trade Outlook — Louisiana Farm Bureau News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54675-louisiana-rice-farmers-hear-optimistic-trade-outlook-louisiana-farm-bureau-news.md) | +0.3% | -1.8% |
| RICE | 2020-07-02 | [USMCA provides more opportunity for US rice - Brownfield Ag News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52179-usmca-provides-more-opportunity-for-us-rice-brownfield-ag-news.md) | +2.4% | -27.6% |
| RICE | 2018-03-23 | [China at center of global rice trade - Texas Farm Bureau](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66072-china-at-center-of-global-rice-trade-texas-farm-bureau.md) | +0.2% | +5.4% |

## Sources

- lafarmbureaunews.com: https://lafarmbureaunews.com/news/2016/12/21/more-us-rice-could-be-moving-into-turkey

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