How America Harvests Billions of Pounds of Rice | Inside a Billion-Dollar Industry

Follow an Arkansas rice farm through a full growing year, from spring planting and summer flooding to a race against storms at harvest time. See how combines, dryers, and mills turn a wet paddy crop into a product sold worldwide, with almost nothing from the plant going to waste. The film also shows why farmers flood their fields again each winter, turning old paddies into wintering grounds for hundreds of thousands of ducks and geese. This is the surprising science behind one of the most popular fruits in America. 🔔 Subscribe for more incredible stories from modern American agriculture — every video takes you inside the farms, machines, technology, and processes behind the food we eat every day.