Arkansas rice

Rhonda Sanders, CEO of Arkansas Foodbank, said the "record-setting" donation will be distributed between five food banks in the Feeding America network in Arkansas read more >

After Consumer Reports said in September that it had found “worrisome” levels of arsenic in rice, including rice grown in Arkansas, the University of Arkansas System went to work. read more >

While the dollar value of the state’s 2012 crops still hasn’t been officially tallied, the record soybean crop may mean that rice is again No. 2. Soybeans displaced rice at the top of the list. read more >

Despite the summer’s punishing drought, Arkansas farmers produced record crops of soybeans, corn and rice and a robust cotton crop, according to figures released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. read more >