April 30, 2012

With more than one million acres of farmland used for rice production, Arkansas is the largest producer of rice in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), supports this important industry through research conducted at the Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DBNRRC), which opened in 1998 in Stuttgart (Arkansas County). The center is the largest such facility in the United States.