LITTLE ROCK — Though Arkansas is the No. 1 producer of rice in the United States, Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said he often hears from residents who don’t know the crop is being grown in their own backyard.

“I still get the question, ‘What are those things out there in the field?’ And I say, ‘You mean the levees? It’s what we use to control water,’” Hardke said. “That can be from somebody who literally lives in eastern Arkansas and has been around them their entire life and still doesn’t know that that’s rice. It still comes up routinely.” kAmx? a_ac[ pC<2?D2D C:46 8C@H6CD 92CG6DE65 `]cb >:==:@? 24C6D 2E 2 DE2E6 C64@C5 2G6C286 J:6=5 @7 f[ec_ A@F?5D A6C 24C6] x? E96 D2>6 J62C[ pC<2?D2D 244@F?E65 7@C ch]b A6C46?E @

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