January 18, 2008
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A first-time rice grower in Pope County, Ark., has a new university record, and beginner's luck had nothing to do with it. The secret of the farmer's success may lie in large part to the use of poultry litter, according to Stewart Runsick, an Extension coordinator for the University of Arkansas Rice Research Verification Program (RRVP).
Arkansas River Valley Farms set an all-time program record for yields — a whopping 231 bushels an acre — and returned $500 an acre above costs. The Pope County program field was 40 acres leveled to a zero grade.