Fueled by hot, dry weather, Arkansas’ rice harvest has caught fire.
“Rice harvest took off last week in the heat wave,” Scott Stiles, extension economics program associate for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said of the week ending Sept. 12.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, rice went from 39% harvested to 60% the week ending Sept. 19. This beats the five-year average by 18%…