The quality and yields for this year’s rice crop are lower due to cool growing conditions and the impact of Hurricane Beryl.“The only thing I can attribute the lower yield and quality to is the cool weather. Early in the growing season and when Hurricane Beryl came through, a lot of rice was ready to be drained and a lot of it was pollinating,” Craig Guthman, a rice farmer from Wharton County, said. “I feel like the wind and the rain from Beryl beat up the kernels and beat up the blooms on the end of the rice, which caused ...