Rice crop in Arkansas showing some signs of stress

An extension rice agronomist says the Arkansas rice crop could desperately use rain.

Jarrod Hardke tells Brownfield there’s a lot of good-looking rice out there.  ‘’But it’s hard to go by a field without being able to notice a problem of some kind,” he says.  “The rice is stressed, so any little thing is exaggerating a problem we might not normally see in an average year.”

He says weed control and crop health are also suffering from the lack of precipitation.

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