Trump Aims Bumper Aid at US Rice Farmers Facing Bleakest Outlook

The new year may mark the last time Texas farmer LG Raun plants a rice crop.

“I guess I’m going to be the one that’s going to screw up the tradition of growing Raun family rice,” said the third-generation producer, whose family has been in the business for more than a century. “I’m not going to keep doing it and lose everything that I have, so if there’s not a big turnaround, ’26 is my last year farming.”

LG Raun next to silos at Rice Belt Warehouse in El Campo, Texas.

Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg

Raun epitomizes why rice growers were the biggest beneficiaries when the US Department of Agriculture unveiled details of its $12 billion ...