Looking back in time

50 YEARS AGO

’75 Rice Crop seen at $9-10 A bumper rice crop is in the making in the United Sates, and that along with a good rice crop in Asia is expected to put the pressure on rice prices in the coming months.

“Rice from the 1975 Texas crop should run at the $9 and $10 per hundred weight level,” Dr. Art Gerlow told some 400 farmers and agribusinesses at the Western Rice Belt Field Day and Tour Thursday at Bay City.