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.
Arkansas is the nationâs top rice-producing state with almost half of all American rice grown here. Most of the stateâs rice farms are in the eastern half of the state. They grow about 240 million bushels of rice each year, which means $1.55 billion and 20,000 jobs for the stateâs economy.