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.
Rice crop in Arkansas showing some signs of stress
