With prices still falling across the board, rice margins are negative.

The husked rice market in Rio Grande do Sul has been marked, for several months, by high production costs, falling domestic prices, and negative producer margins. According to researchers from Cepea, recent records of volumes being exported and some demand from other states for higher-yield rice were insufficient to sustain prices. Thus, the values of husked rice continue to decline broadly in the main producing regions in the final stretch of November. According to the most recent data from Cepea's Agricultural Cost Team, considering all input purchases made in October/25, the break-even price over the operational cost (expenditure) calculated by Cepea for the region of Uruguaiana (RS) closed at R$ 66.71/sack of 50 kg and, over the total cost, at R$ 93.19/sack. In Camaquã (RS), these costs were R$ 61.73/sack and R$ 87.88/sack, respectively. As for the average selling prices of rice, in the partial period of November (up to the 21st), they were R$ 54.85/sack in the region of ...