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A fashion show amid lush green rice fields — Yi ethnic costumes take center stage in Yuexi, SW China. 👗🌾 Hand-embroidered Yi patterns meet modern fashion, bringing intangible cultural heritage to life.

Hey hey Good Saturday to you all Do you like rice? You may know that Arkansas leads the nation in rice production but did you know why and how it got started? I just learned that Arkansas’s rice industry grew out of a hunting trip and one farmer willing to gamble on an idea. William H. Fuller of Carlisle saw rice growing in Louisiana and noticed how much the soil resembled Arkansas’s Grand Prairie. His first three-acre attempt in 1897 didn’t amount to much, so he went to Louisiana, learned how rice farming worked and came home to try again. In 1904, Fuller planted 70 acres and harvested 5,225 bushels more than enough to win a $1,000 challenge offered by Hazen businessmen. Other farmers took notice, and rice fields began spreading across eastern Arkansas. Arkansas went on to become the nation’s leading rice-producing state since 1973, and rice became our official state grain in 2007. All of that history traces back to a farmer who saw possibility in Arkansas soil where others saw pastureland.

For thousands of years, using massive amounts of water to flood rice fields looked like the price of feeding the world. It wasn't a law of nature — just a workaround for a problem we couldn't yet solve biologically. In our latest post on The Labs Report, Flagship’s Ignacio Martinez and Alec Asbridge explore what changes once biology becomes readable, and how our Pioneering Abundance initiative takes an ecosystem approach to turn those insights into real solutions. Read:

Drones raise farming efficiency, quality in China A drone flies over rice fields at 8 meters per second, sowing rice seeds in the afternoon in Liantang village, Huangpu district, Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. In just 30 minutes, 300 mu (20 hectares) of rice fields are sown. Across the farmland, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including soil sensors, weather stations, and smart cameras, send data back to the "farm brain" every 15 minutes. "One drone can manage 500 mu of farmland, enabling fully unmanned cultivation," said Gong Jiaqin, co-founder and senior vice president of XAG, an agritech robot maker. Around 3,000 km away in Yuli county, northwest China's Xinjiang, XAG's 3,000-mu smart cotton farm is just as still and silent. There are no workers, only drones autonomously patrolling overhead, while unmanned vehicles move along preset routes, delivering precisely measured water and fertilizer directly to each cotton plant's roots. This is China's first unmanned cotton farm project. When it was launched in 2021, local cotton farmers thought it was impossible for two people to manage 3,000 mu of land. By 2024, however, the farm achieved an average yield of 529 kilograms of seed cotton per mu, with premium cotton accounting for over 96%. Read full: