1 A reasonable estimate for house building lumber costs is somewhere around $15 to $30 per square foot. 2  For an average sized home, this works out to approximately $35 to $55,000 (this price also includes the price of nails, etc.).
Studies by Scottish researchers have found higher levels of arsenic in rice grown in the U.S. than in basmati or jasmine rice from Thailand or India. The highest levels of arsenic in U.S.-grown rice came from Southern states.
Thatâs good news for Arkansas, which produces 49 percent of the rice supply in the United States, ranking it first in the nation. Arkansasâs rice production is valued at nearly $2 billion annually, and rice is the stateâs top export. Arkansas rice growers broke records in 2012, producing 7,340 pounds per acre, up 8 percent from 2011. Rice acreage also increased to 1.3 million acres in 2012 compared with 1.2 million acres in 2011.