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The five largest rice-producing counties in the state of Arkansas were Poinsett (134,944 harvested acreage), Arkansas (117,675 harvested acreage), Cross (106,254 harvested acreage), Jackson (101,762 harvested acreage), and Lawrence (99,480 harvested acreage) in the year 2003, which represented nearly 36% of the state's total land acreage under ...
Stuttgart is a city in and the county seat of the northern district of Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 9,326. [ 6 ]
Stuttgart soils are named for the City of Stuttgart in southeast Arkansas. They are used primarily for crops , mainly rice , soybeans , small grains , and corn . The Stuttgart area is also famous for its large fall and winter population of ducks and geese (Stuttgart bills itself as "The Rice and Duck Capital of the World").
The Rice Belt of the United States includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, four southern U.S. states that grow a significant portion of the nation's rice crop. The name is in conformity with the Corn Belt of the Midwestern United States , in which much of the nation's corn is grown.
Rice dryer and storage building in Arkansas County, Arkansas. Since then, California has cultivated rice on a large scale, and as of 2006 its production was the second largest state, [16] after Arkansas, with production concentrated in six counties north of Sacramento. [18]
Stuttgart, a predominantly agricultural community and major center of Arkansas's rice growing industry, is located on the Grand Prairie in northern Arkansas County. It began as a colony of German immigrants, [ 4 ] and is one of two county seats in Arkansas County alongside DeWitt.
Rice field near Stuttgart. The underlying impermeable clay layer in the Stuttgart soil series that allowed the region to be a flat grassland plain initially appeared to stunt the region's growth relative to the rest of the Delta. But in 1897, William Fuller began cultivating rice, a crop that requires inundation, with great success. Rice ...
The Hubbard Rice Dryer is a historic rice processing facility at 15015 Senteney Road (Poinsett County Road 624), about 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Weiner, Arkansas.It consists of ten concrete silos 50 feet (15 m) in height, arranged in pairs retreating from the roadway, which passes to the south of the facility.