At midway through the growing season, Arkansas farmer Dow

Brantley says the rice crop is looking pretty good.  “We were off to a slow start with another wet

spring,” he says.  “But the crop is clean

and looks good.  We’re back to what I’d call

our normal acres.  We have 1.4 million

acres in Arkansas and that’s a big increase from last year.”

He also raises corn, soybeans, and cotton.  “Our corn is a couple of weeks away from

terminating irrigation and we’re about 5 weeks away from harvest,” he

says.  “Corn looks great and cotton is just

starting to bloom so there’s a long way to go yet on our cotton crop.”

Brantley farms about 30 miles southeast of Little Rock,

Arkansas.

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