An Arkansas rice extension educator says planting season got started early and has yet to slow down.
Jarrod Hardke says some farmers in the state were almost finished planting rice in the first week of April. “We started seeing some rice even emerge the first few days of April,” he says. “Because conditions were not extremely warm, but warmer than average, and things have just progressed along.”
The latest crop progress and conditions update from the USDA reported that 46 percent of the state’s rice crop was planted, and 7 percent emerged.
