It would be a gross understatement to say that it has been busy around Isbell Farms lately. Let me see if I can catch you up on everything since our last blog post. We had visitors from the Embassy of Cuba on September 6th. We cooked lunch for them and sat around the table for […]
We completed our first week of harvest 2022. Unfortunately, we only harvested three full days due to running into green rice on Tuesday and then a little rain on Friday. Still, we’ve been able to cut 438 acres since we started, and you won’t catch us complaining about that! September is National Rice Month, which […]
Isbell Farms has begun planting the 2020 Crop. The weather hasn’t been great, but we are getting an earlier start than 2019. Hopefully we can make more progress soon. Here area couple of videos of different planting methods we use.
Harvest has finally begun on Isbell Farms. Harvest this year began the second week of September, which is about a month later than the norm for us. This was due to the late planting that resulted from the frequent spring rains. So far, harvest weather has been very good, so we are hopeful to make […]
Isbell Farms is glad to now be an Affiliate Member of the the Sake Brewers Association of North America. It has been exciting to watch the rise of the Sake community in the past years and it is exciting to now see this organization working to bring together those who are a part of this […]
When you have a year like 2019, when the heavy and frequent rains set planting back by at least a month, you sometimes wish you could put things in fast forward. Unfortunately, that isn’t possible, but we were able to stitch images from our Field Cam into a timelapse so you can experience the crop […]
Since 2018, much of Isbell Farm’s energy use is being generated through their on-farm solar project. This 300KWH solar farm provides power for irrigation, grain drying, farm-shops and residences. When all of the generated energy is not in use by Isbell Farms, the power is transferred to the local power grid through net metering. We […]
Isbell Farms is honored and grateful to have been chosen as the 2018 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. You can read more about that here. https://www.farmprogress.com/rice/chris-and-judy-isbell-2018-arkansas-farming-family-year https://www.arfb.com/news/2018/dec/06/isbell-family-named-arkansas-farm-family-year/
8/24/2016 Isbell Farms was grateful for the opportunity today to host a group from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) today, including Deputy Chief of Programs Tony Kramer. NRCS provides a number of programs to farmers to help encourage the adoption of conservation practices. Today, we specifically discussed the EQUIP Climate Change Mitigation program, which […]
Cover Crops: Planning for Next Year Harvest is just about to begin for the 2016 crop here at Isbell Farms, but planning for next season has already begun. We are looking forward to planting Cover Crops on a portion of our acreage this year. After the rice is harvested, we will plant into the stubble […]