Cotton Belt Route / St. Louis Southwestern Railway

Description: Cotton Belt Route / St. Louis Southwestern Railway - Arkansas Rice Field: The Cotton Belt Route, also known as the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, was a railroad that ran from St. Louis, Missouri to various points in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas from 1891 to 1992. The route was nicknamed the Cotton Belt because it ran through areas where cotton was the main crop. There are 1.4 million acres of rice farmed in 40 Arkansas counties. Arkansas is number one in rice production in the United States while China is number one in the world. Large scale rice production in the state of Arkansas became a significant industry in the late 19th/early 20th century with its wide scale propagation within the state by entrepreneur W.H. Fuller around 1896. Arkansas has historically been the largest rice producer in the entire United States, and accounted for nearly 45% of U.S. rice production in 2001, as well as just less than half of the total number of acres of rice harvested nationwide. Much of Arkansas' rice is grown in the east-central portion of the state, where it requires nearly three times more the amount of irrigation water than the average eleven inches the region receives during the growing season. In the areas of lowest precipitation, or where weedy red rice is a significant problem, farmers follow a three year, three phase "old rotation" of rice-soybean-soybean. However, most Arkansas rice producers follow a two-year, two-phase crop rotation of rice following soybeans. This Divided Back Era (1907-15) postcard is in good condition.

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Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-01-28T01:08:47.000Z

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