Talk:Rice production in the United States

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Did you know... that in 2000–09, approximately 3.1 million acres in the United States were under rice production?

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Proposed merge of Rice Belt into Rice production in the United States

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

To not merge Rice Belt into Rice production in the United States, but rather to link it better and improve. Klbrain (talk) 08:52, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not a distinctly studied concept outside of US rice production, could be treated well as a redirect to main article Sadads (talk) 12:49, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. A quick Google search on "rice belt" shows many place-based usages, that are not related to rice production. Libcub (talk) 06:24, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both based on the above reasoning and because I think an argument could be made for a stand alone Rice Belt (United States). Horse Eye's Back (talk) 21:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support as proposed. The one source on Rice Belt doesn't even use this term, so its a neologism; and modern references have probably arisen from the existence of that page since 2004. The current page, Rice production in the United States, covers the topic in far greater depth. So, merge for reasons of short text, context and overlap. Klbrain (talk) 15:18, 8 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose as this could become a good article with some good attention. There is no need to move it. Instead the other page could feature a mention and link to this page. Ktkvtsh (talk) 08:57, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Irrelevant image

Not sure what the image of people in africa in the main section has to do with current rice production in the united states. The image would be more suited for the history section, but even there, the image is not historical, and the image may even be miscaptioned, as it incorrectly describes the women as enslaved. According to the artist's instagram:

Farming While Black. Naima Penniman, acrylic on wood, photographs, 2018. “African women braided seeds into their hair before being forced to board transatlantic slave ships, a creative act of survival and resistance. Leah Penniman, cofounder of Soul Fire Farm (SFF) writes, “For thousands of years Black people have had a sacred relationship with soil that far surpasses our 246 years of enslavement and 65 years of sharecropping in the United States.” Restoring this connection is central to SFF’s mission.

Olgaman (talk) 15:00, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The image appears to have been taken in the United States, not Africa. What made you think it was taken in Africa? Also note that the caption does not describe the women in the picture as enslaved. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 15:12, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The caption in the article describes them as enslaved Africans, reading "Enslaved Africans incorporating rice seeds into hair braiding as they traveled through the Middle Passage to North America."

I've removed it.

Olgaman (talk) 23:47, 23 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update stats

Looks like many of the figures here are from >10 years ago. Would be good to update with current info from NASS and other source. Noticed that top image is from circa 2010, here is the 2022 US county rice production map

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Crops_County/ar-pr.php Muniche (talk) 20:16, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Under the Production section, it is illogical to list area harvested area in hectares as that is not the standard unit of measurement for land in the US, nor is it the unit of measurement used in the report cited.

Also, citation 19 which supposedly contained the USDA 2012 crop report is broken and now outdated by over a decade, and should be linked to the actual report at https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/crop1012.pdf not linked to a Cornell mirror that has been depricated. Captain Citation (talk) 17:23, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]