KUAR | By Tracy Courage / UA Division of Agriculture, Ryan McGeeney/ UA Divison of Agriculture
After a rainy April, spring planting in Arkansas is off to a slow start, with three of the state’s major crops lagging far behind their typical progress.
Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said it could be May 1 before some areas of the state are dry enough to resume planting — or even later, with additional rainfall in the forecast.
Without a little cooperation from Mother Nature, he said, 2022 could be the first year that the state’s rice acreage falls below 1 million acres in nearly 40 years.
Randy Chlapecka/University Of Arkansas Division Of Agriculture
Equipment standing in water after a rain deluge April 20, 2022, near Tuckerman, Arkansas.