How Much Rice Can One Plant Produce?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- Due to the size of our rice farm I've never considered how much rice can one plant produce. I always calculate in acres. I know who much a single rice field can yield but never thought about how much a single plant can yield. That was all until I received a great question from a viewer on Rice Farming TV. He asked, "How many kernels of rice does the average plant produce?"
To find the answer we will simple count the rice kernels (or seeds) that a single plant is producing. Each rice plant makes a seed head that is comprised of spikelets or blooms, forming grains of rice.
Numbers of how much rice a plant produces is dependent on a variety of factors: the rice farmer, rice variety, region the rice was planted (soil type and weather patterns), and more.
I just thought this was such a great question that I needed to dedicate an episode of Rice Farming TV to it. Let me know if you have any questions about rice production or farming rice in California.
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Hi everybody! If you're interested in knowing what was happening in a particular quick scene during the count, let me know. I'll link you to the specific Rice Farming TV episode.
What video is it where you're burning something?
Daniel Abendroth, here is the episode:
th-cam.com/video/swfg6Uy8_Tk/w-d-xo.html
-Matthew
How many pounds of seed do you need per hectare for seeding it is my first year so I need some information if you can give me some
You pulled a stem and called it a plant? Rice tillers.
@@davidklassen9703 I am guessing it will be around 500 pounds per hectare based on his estimation of 10k pounds produced per acre and 1 seed resulting in around 50 seeds on harvest.
Thanks for going to all that trouble Matt. I had no idea what to expect but I find the entire rice farming process extremely interesting, and you make it fun and entertaining. Thanks for what you're doing.
Hey Steve! No trouble it all. It was a great question and I appreciate the inspiration. I'm happy to hear that you're finding rice production interesting. As long as there's an interest and engaged viewers like yourself, I'll keep going! Take care.
-M.
My entire relatives grow rice in Vietnam. When I visited one of their fields, I thought it would be fun to help out. I stepped right into the field with the water high, I screamed. The mud and bare feet didn’t go well. But watching them harvesting by hands and the whole process were just back breaking job.
silliepooh glad you got to see a small part of how the world really lives.
B Ye it’s always one of the greatest experiences in live is one when understanding and explore other parts of the world and their culture.
Nice, next time try it with boots. I've got to try growing some
They don't own harvester?
Why don't they just rent one
@@vladimirlenin843 Most harvesters cost between $300,000 and $500,000 and renting one can cost thousands of dollars a month, so considering that on avaerage these farmers are only earning roughly $3 a day, it would be very difficult for them to be able to obtain a harvester which is why they can't just buy or rent one. All over Vietnam, rice farmers do use water buffaloes for work to drag things and plow fields, but even then the farmers still have to engage in gruelling manual labour.
I love your lab you take your studies back to.... watching you sweep the the counter/bench off I can only imagine the generations of your family that have worked in that shop.... it’s not just a bench top, it’s history, each dent, each scratch speaks of the work taking place to farm rice... Thanks!
Be sure to count on tillering. One plant will produce multiple side shoots, which will each produce a seed head. Your count per head may be multiplied by a factor of ten or more.
Thanks a lot. you answered a question that was literally keeping me up at night.
We used your video in our homeschool class today, we learned rice was a seed and wanted to see how it was grown. your video collage showed a lot of steps in the process of seed to harvest. We appreciated your video.
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I’ve grown up in Arkansas always driving around rice fields during duck season, this was really interesting learning more in depth about the crop!
same. as a teen I toured riceland twice. it just always amazes me.
Wow.. you deserve major praise because it looks like rice farming is extremely very hard work! Thanks for the insight..I will never look at rice the same after seeing what it takes to get just one bag of rice!
Thank you so much for this video, Just had someone at work ask me how much rice does a plant make and I said, lets go find out and we found this!! Thank you for answering the question in a fun way.
I never thought i would be subscibing to a rice farming chanel.....til now.👍🏾
Wow truly amazing on how many rice there was. And its amazing on how rice feeds so many people all over the world. Thank you for sharing with us 🤗🍚🤗🍚🤗
EPIC! Great video. 51 it is. Thank you!
Amazing video! Just came across your channel, learning so much!
It’s crazy to think such a small plant can produce so much. Then again you get a much better idea when you’re behind the wheel of a combine. Didn’t realize how much is produced until I started to pay more attention when I unload into the bank out. Nature is a beautiful thing!
makes you realize the delusion that there is not enough food for the world is just that a delusion, illusion. The earth has plenty to sustain humans. When we all realize this, we will no longer be slaves to the establishment and the rich elite.
Thank you for the video. This is must watch for people who waste food everyday on their plate.
I came here to found out how about rice and discovered a new favourite song by accident. Thanks :) ... By the way: The song is "Mother" by The Big Let Down feat. Divty (for anyone curious, I had to use Shazam :D)
amazing the tool is very sophisticated
you are THE ONLY person to explain rice to me! lol thank you
th-cam.com/video/QvcXKb-u2UM/w-d-xo.html
I was curious thank you!
What a brilliant video - very imaginative and engaging!
To get an average the trick is to pick 30 plants at random. Of course that is not easy, so as to avoid damaging large amounts of the crop one would naturally pick plants from the sides of the field which could be either more or less productive. Most TH-camrs do not think ahead like you do and realise watching you count 51 grains of rice could be a bit dull. As always you liven up your videos to keep them entertaining. Great job.
Great video Matthew,
I got my hat in the mail.
Love it and it fits great.
Awesome J! Glad the hat arrived safely. I appreciate the support. Take care.
-M.
You just have me the info I want straight away - THANKYOU
I’m subscribing for that
10,000 per acre = 2,500 per 1/4 acre an thats the land I have to plant on (hopefully, I gotta talk to this old farmer guy with a bunch of land again. He said if I fix his fence an maintain his land I can have a 1/2 acre of his land to use an I want to use 50% for rice) I hope this is somewhat easy ..
So one plant is a mouthful of rice!🍚 🌾 😌 “YUM!”
This was really interesting. I know why but I am on a kick to know about growing rice lol. Very interesting indeed. Janice
I wanted to know how much an individual plant could grow now I know awesome vid ty very much
This is the best rice counting I ever watch! 😁😁😁
Haha! Thank you, Hyou Zan!
-Matthew
I liked the addition of the steps in production of rice. People especially living in cities need to see this. I am curious about the actual depth of soil needed to produce a healthy rice plant?.
Incredible editing with the seed counting 👌
Excellent educational video. Thank you. And thank you for your hard work. I have always enjoyed eating rice of all kinds. As I have gotten older I am enjoying brown rice now more than before.
This is the most entertaining and well made videos on TH-cam well done sir I am impressed
Tsk for your explanation and your time my Son enjoin that . Texas
Hello there in Texas! Thanks for the message. Glad you are enjoying.
-Matthew
That’s a lot and another great video 👍
I am feeling overwhelmed. I dont think I will try to grow rice. Lol 😆
I enjoy this video so much
I am new to your channel and your videos are satisfying to watch< Especially on agriculture.
Hmmm. Never thought about how many kernels in one plant. Interesting question and good answer. Now, if I had the time I would come over and count how many kernels are on a bunch of plants for you. Ha ha ha! Well, that would be fun for something different to do. But 51 sounds like a good round number. Take care and I hope you are getting the cooler weather over there like we are here on the coast.
Had know idea what to expect 👍🇦🇺🍻
Dude awesome video!
Well I must admit that was more than I thought it would be. Do you have any idea what you average of plants per acre is? Keep up the great work mathew always enjoy seeing a new video on Rice Farming TV. Have a great labor day weekend. God Bless!!!
Nice Sharing.
Thank you, Mujahid.
-M.
Awesome 👍👍
Thank you so so much this is truly very helpful to me Thank you 😊🚩🙏
Did you weigh the 52 items of rice, would have been useful info, great video though :)
Wow that is hard work for rice to grow
This was interesting 🙋
Thanks- interesting...
Glad you enjoyed! I appreciate the message. I hope you keep in touch and let me know if you have any questions.
-M.
GOOD JOB.
This is high quality production matthew,you should be down in Hollywood making movies,they would be better than some of the stuff that comes to my local theatre.😀
2:05 You should be aware that this is a farmer who is also a magician.
Rice farmer from Texas here. Great show of the rice industry! One seed produces many tillers and therefore many heads of rice. One seed may produce 10x, 15x or 20x more than you see here on one head. In Texas where we can usually get a ratoon crop, that number goes up even more. We plant about 26 pounds of seed to the acre and have harvested over 14000 pounds to the acre with two crops in an extremely good year. These comments are not to criticize this great production, but add to it by showing the unbelievable things God has created that we as farmers get to produce to help feed the world.
And for those who like math, the 26 pounds of rice per acre was about 520000 seeds per acre this year.
Good your rice Farmers🇮🇩👍
Congratulations it is interesting
I’m cooking rice right now, not planned very random vid. I’m making rice pilaf garlic n chicken out of a box
Ohwow rice farming there is truly amazing,, using heavy equipment ,,
th-cam.com/video/QvcXKb-u2UM/w-d-xo.html
Wow nice information again. Keep it up Matthew, by the way 10k per acre is equal to 1kg of paddy per meter square in our measurement. I want to ask how much average weight of calrose rice per grain? What is your storage MC and temp equilibrium point in your silos? Thanks alot.
Great yield!
Buddy love from India 😍. Your videos are awesome. I just want to ask if you shoot these videos alone or u have any assistant. How u edit them? It’s a really tough task for a single person. Also buddy where did u learnt this awesome videography 😁😊😍 May this season ur crop break all previous records🙏🏻
Hi @ricefarmingtv
Thanks for the wonderful job you do here. I’m new to your page and I’d like to know step by step the process involved in rice farming. Can you point me to videos where that is possible? Stepwisely please with every details
Mother Nature - takes 1 grain from us and return us back with 50!! Thank you :)
Hey Matt great video! Do you guys every harvest crawfish out of your rice fields? I've seen guys down in Louisiana do that as a second business and was wondering if that worked in Northern CA.
It should have been 'ever'
Hi everyone, I'm looking at growing rice in aquaponics.
Do you know how much rice can be harvested on one square meter and how many times a year would harvesting be possible?
Ps, thank you for your valuable information so far.
Dang not sure how I got here but this video was legit
Gentleman I have one rice variety called NABANNA which once transplanted you can harvest twice . For example if you transplant it in January 1st then you have your first harvest in April 1st then you just add fertilizer and water new plant will appear from the root . Then in July 1st you can harvest again . It takes just 90 days for seed to seed
Hello you have a cool channel. Learning about how rice is made is interesting. Y'all not very far from us. Do you do tours on the farm for us city folks Lol?
Hi Tanya! Thanks for the message and I'm glad you're enjoying my channel. We don't normally do tours of the farm because we are just so busy. Also I'm not sure if there would be any liability issues (especially for large groups). We're not far from you? Where do you live?
-Matthew
Imagine getting to be a rice farmer. This guy is living the dream.
Interesting
I was really curious about this. I eat about 1 cup of dry rice per day and I have two 25 pound bags of rice and I couldn't help but wonder: how many plants might it take for all this rice?
Great video, and really well edited.
th-cam.com/video/QvcXKb-u2UM/w-d-xo.html
1000000
why is this so good lol
Thanks JP! I’ll take that nice compliment.
-Matthew
wow nice video
Cool vids I like and me new to channel
greetings and success of farmers from South Sumatra Indonesia. 🇲🇨🇲🇨 May the farmers' crops be bountiful and the farmers will be blessed, will have an abundant age and health amen🤲🤲👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾
Great work! Im located in drylands and Im gonna try to grow rice without flooding the paddies with one or two previous crops to create soilconditioning, humidity and nourishment for the plants. Im still looking for the best strain to do that and for any inputs. Its a demonstrative kinda altruistic project with return in our dryland project so any advice is appreciated. Thanks for sharing! Keep the great work...
Mr. Camiranga, thanks for the message! I wish you the best of luck with your awesome project. I know that the plant breeders at the California Rice Experiment Station have been working on drought tolerant rice. Google their website for more info and perhaps contact them. Are you in California? Thanks again for the message and encouragement.
-Matthew
How is it going have u started yet
Driving past the rice fields and wondering to myself what the heck rice looks like fresh out the fields... click on this video and realize that we’re neighbors cause I recognize that mountain range 😂
Nice music (during the counting of kernals). But how much did they weigh?
Where do you buy this variety of seed?
Hey Matt! It looked like you counted the seeds on one seed head. But aren’t there multiple heads on a plant?
Depends! The field from which I pulled this plant was lush with a thick stand of rice so the plant did not tiller (no need and no space). So it's almost better to take a look at a square area of space to get a solid average for the field. To get a better average for individual plants it would be better to select them from all over the field (pulling ones with tillers and ones without). It's a hard question to answer because there are so many variables. But that specific plant had no tillers; nor did its neighboring plants.
-M.
Hello!!Great work on your channel.How many hectares is your farm?How many kg per hectares is your harvest?Im also a rice farmer in the philippines.thankyou
Could you determine the below details if possible?
Number of crops in 1 square meter/foot
Weight of kernels in the same 1 square meter/foot (assuming it will be around 1.25 kgs)
I counted 75 kernels on a head on my M206.
How long does it take to grow rice? From farm to mature shell and from from shell to table?
OMG in my mind I was like 50 rice kernels and it turned out to be 51! lol
Need video link: burning grass/weeds prep of the field with the torch. Got one like that at work but we melt some snow from the rail switches in the winter.
Do you grow more than one type of medium rice in case of disease mold or rice bugs?
Just bought corn 🌽 from a natural farm in the Northeast he uses no pesticides or herbicides. He said watch out for the occasional worm. So I go to get an ear from my fridge 2 days later didn't notice the green catapillar eating the green leaf outside. Really sweet natural corn for real.
Love the channel, when is the next Oroville/rice farmimg update with Blancorillio, Juan Browne?
Here's the link, DW: th-cam.com/video/swfg6Uy8_Tk/w-d-xo.html
We only grow Calrose medium grain rice but we do grow 3 different sub-varieties: m105, m206 and m209. They all have different maturity point, some yield higher but have weaker plant matter, other have stronger plant matter (which helps them stay standing).
Man, JB is always welcome to the ranch. I should invite him during harvest while we're cutting rice. That would be fun.
Thanks for the nice message, DW!
-M.
Taft farms GB masssachusets
Ask him to fly the crop duster during planting. That would be a fun video.
Wait a minute, that's your livelihood, let's have him PRETEND to fly the crop duster during planting. Lol.
markythearky, I flew a small passenger plane for a little bit in this one: th-cam.com/video/vMnkMHbFiBo/w-d-xo.html
Too nervous! But maybe I should get my hours!
-M.
You summed up TH-cam. An almost 5 minute video to. Not even answer the actual question “because you don’t have time”, but probably spent well over an hour making and editing the video.. also I will save you guys 4 minutes of your life the one plant he counted had 51 rice kernels.
Rice is just like a watermelon seed it is able to reproduce it self thousands of time over.thank G-D
hi farmer, I want to know the variety of plant that you are using
I need one of those shirts
The whole plant would include all the tillers also. So it makes multiple heads off one seed planted
Kyle, very true. And the amount of tillers depend on the stand. If the stand is lush enough then the plant actually wont tiller. That was the case in this example/video. In retrospect I wish I would have found a plant that had tillered and produced more seeds/rice. Thanks Kyle!
-Matthew
I'm a rice farmer in south Louisiana. It's neat to see how rice is grown in California.
So how many plants you need to grow to produce a pound of consumable rice after processing them?
51 good enough answer for me
if you want a range, starting at 51
just assume 44-58/plant
What about the SP grain cart ? what a run down on that
i loved the music at 2:28....can someone give me link to it
It's "Darude - Sandstorm"
I want to start a farm of my own incredibly bad one day, for someone who'd be moving straight out from the city and starting from scratch, in your personal opinion, would it be worth the financial risk these days opening my own farm especially as a beginner? And given your experience, would it be possible to juggle the time between a working farm and a full time job five days a week?
When are you planning on harvesting that rice? It looks like the seeds are turning golden.
Terosh, we are thinking second or third week in September. We have been using September 20th for a pin-pointed date but that could easily shift by a week either way. All depends on how hot it is and how rapidly the plants and rice kernels dry out. We are draining our fields of water now.
-M.
I have wondered how many seeds heads each rice plant {or wheat plant} can produce. I figure more than one. We live in farm country. I do know soy seed up one stalk and some types of beans can have seed pods the entire length of that stalk.
Hi I’m wondering why we keep cooking toxic RICE. How do we tell and or what should look for to buy? Thank you 🙏🏻
stepheng1967 states he has planted 26 lbs of seed an acre and got a harvest of 14000lb an acre (two harvests) for a ratio of 1 seed planted to 540 harvested. Would you tell us what is your plant to harvest ratio is? Something similar? It's pretty cool if you can get 500 times the amount of seed back from what you plant.
1 plant has many tillers and some grains could be not fertilised but i mean
Do you add anything to your rice post harvest?
Maybe something to keep them dry?
Hi Ray, after the rice is harvested it is delivered to the dryer. The rice is dried down to storage moisture with heating columns. Then just air is blown through the flat storage to keep the rice from sweating. Great question!
-M.
Hi Matt, can the rice not be dried sufficiently? Sometimes, under all equal conditions, rice after cooking becomes really mushy. ( Other times the rice is perfect). This usually happens when I buy unbranded rice. And it's really visible from the first minutes of boiling, rice turns into mush. I suspect that rice was not sufficiently dried from the beginning. Thanks.