date:Jul 20, 2012
be the best in three years, knock on wood. In 2007, the long-grain rice harvest produced an all-time high yield of 6,979 cwts per acre.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its June 2012 Acreage report said area planted to long grain rice was up 8% compared with the previous year, with acreage in both Arkansas and Missouri higher because severe flooding in the spring of 2011 limited planting last year.
Overall U.S. rice plantings, including medium grain rice cultivated in California, were estim