Agriculture, Rice

April 01, 2025

Platts to discontinue four rice assessments from July 1, 2025

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, will discontinue four rice price assessments across its Americas coverage, effective July 1.

This follows a period of sustained trading inactivity for the products and regions covered by the price assessments concerned.

Platts will discontinue the following price assessments:

Price AssessmentSymbolFrequencyFixed Pages
Uruguay Long Grain White Rice Olimar 5% Broken FOB FCLLRJBB00WeeklyPA0604, PA3003
LRJBB03Monthly AveragePA3009
US Gulf Long Grain Rice Southern Flour Quality Broken ex-worksLRIGI00WeeklyPA0602, PA3003
LRIGI03Monthly AveragePA3009
US Gulf Long Grain Rice Southern Pet Food Quality Broken ex-worksLRIHI00DailyPA0602, PA3003
LRIHI03Monthly AveragePA3009
US Gulf Long Grain Rice #1 Parboiled Milled 4% Broken FOB bulk NOLALRIEH00WeeklyPA0602, PA3003
LRIEH03Monthly AveragePA3009
In addition, Platts will discontinue volatility estimates associated with these price assessments, as follows:
AssessmentVolatility Symbol
Uruguay Long Grain White Rice Olimar 5% Broken FOB FCLRVJBB00
US Gulf Long Grain Rice Southern Flour Quality Broken ex-worksRVIGI00
US Gulf Long Grain Rice Southern Pet Food Quality Broken ex-worksRVIHI00
US Gulf Long Grain Rice #1 Parboiled Milled 4% Broken FOB bulk NOLARVIEH00

The daily price assessments covered by this discontinuation appear in the Rice Daily PDF, and weekly price assessments in the Rice Weekly PDF. The price assessments also appear on Platts Connect.

The last dates of publication of the weekly and daily price assessments will be June 26 and June 30, respectively.

Please send any feedback or questions to MRTS_AgricultureandFood@spglobal.com and pricegroup@spglobal.com.

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Platts will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available to the public upon request.