How is white rice produced and can it be made on North American soil?

Answer 1

The United States typically accounts for 1.5 to 2 percent of global rice output, with production concentrated in six regions: the Arkansas Grand Prairie, northeastern Arkansas and the boot heel of Missouri, the Mississippi River Delta (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and northeast Louisiana), southwest Louisiana, the Coastal Prairie of Texas, and California's Sacramento Valley, and Florida. In the United States, rice is referred to by length of grain: long, medium, and short. Long grain rice is grown almost exclusively in the South and accounts for more than 70 percent of U.S. production. Medium grain is grown both in California and the South and accounts for more than a fourth of total U.S. production. Short grain rice is grown mostly in California and accounts for 1-2 percent of total U.S. production. All U.S. rice is produced in irrigated fields, achieving some of the highest yields in the world. Producers in the United States apply seed aerially in dry or flooded fields, or drill or broadcast seed into dry fields. Fertilizers, insecticides, and pesticides can also be applied by air. Planting typically begins in early March in Texas and southwest Louisiana. The Delta plants the bulk of its crop in April, and California's crop is planted from late April through mid-May. Harvest begins in early July in Texas and southwest Louisiana. Peak harvest in the South is in September and early October when the Delta harvests the bulk of its crop. Some producers in Texas and southwest Louisiana are able to re-flood their fields after harvest and achieve a partial second crop from the stubble of the first. California typically begins harvest at the end of September and finishes by early November.

Answer 2

You have obviously never been to Northern California.. we have rice paddys all over the place here.. mostly producing white (Calrose) rice.. its been made/grown in NA for quite along time already..

How its produced? basically remove the outter hull on a specific type of rice...

Answer 3

Most of us here in America only know of two kinds of rice - long grain brown rice and long grain white rice which is refined long grain brown rice. Only about 10% of it grown in the United States, yet the US is the largest exporter of rice in the world.

Answer 4

They grow a lot of rice in eastern Arkansas. What makes it white is the processing that removes the brown outer layer. The process also removes a lot of nutrients.