Warren Farms Rice harvest 2018
Growing Conventional and Hybrid Rice in Southern Arkansas
A Eagles view of what it looks like Harvesting down in the south.


Arkansas Rice Facts

Arkansas is the #1 producer of rice in the United States.
In 2015, Arkansas farmers produced 207,550,200 bushels of rice on 1.286 million acres. That accounted for 49 percent of all the rice produced in the United States. Farmers in Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri account for most of the rest.
In 1904 William Fuller became one of the first farmers to grow rice successfully on his farm in Arkansas. By 1910 rice production, research and milling were established in the state.
Each year Arkansas farmers plant an average of 1.3 million acres of rice and harvest over 200 million bushels on 2,752 farms.
Arkansas farmers produce more than 9 billion pounds of rice each year.
Rice is the state’s second-highest-value commodity and its top agricultural export.
The annual Arkansas rice crop contributes billions to the state’s economy and and accounts for approximately 25,000 jobs, crucial to rural communities.

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