US rough rice futures on the Chicago Board of Trade fell on Tuesday on continued technical selling and profit-taking after last week's rally to a one-month high. May rice settled down 9 cents at $13.03 per cwt but rebounded off the day's low of $12.93. Back months ended down 9-1/2 to 12 cents. USDA said the US rice crop was 23 percent planted as of Sunday, ahead of the five-year average of 21 percent.
USDA said the rice crop was 4 percent emerged, compared with the five-year average of 8 percent.
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