How Much Rice Can One Plant Produce?!

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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.

[@daniel00120012]

What video is it where you're burning something?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Daniel Abendroth, here is the episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qajJmGmLrp2Sis0 -Matthew

[@davidklassen9703]

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

[@SandcastleDreams]

You pulled a stem and called it a plant? Rice tillers.

[@RA-iv5sd]

@@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.

[@silliepooh]

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.

[@1yehny]

silliepooh glad you got to see a small part of how the world really lives.

[@silliepooh]

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.

[@davinsonsampson4220]

Nice, next time try it with boots. I've got to try growing some

[@vladimirlenin843]

They don't own harvester? Why don't they just rent one

[@anquybinhnguyen246]

@@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.

[@stevet8121]

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.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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.

[@leeleeowe1154]

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. Young viewer comments: Tatum 5 yrs old: "5 Thumbs up!" Nomi 7 years old: "I liked it very much, thank you for putting it out."

[@marquessmith395]

I never thought i would be subscibing to a rice farming chanel.....til now.👍🏾

[@richardburguillos3118]

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!

[@southeesays6538]

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.

[@truehearttrue]

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!

[@jeremychamplin1078]

Thanks a lot. you answered a question that was literally keeping me up at night.

[@samwidmer3385]

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!

[@jaeboogie2786]

same. as a teen I toured riceland twice. it just always amazes me.

[@alfredbalauro3215]

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.

[@MsGaella]

This is true. We grow a little patty of rice here in Western Massachusetts. One seed produces many tillers and can have as many as 200 seeds from one seed planted in the soil.😲🌾

[@YOLGBTRAPSATL]

you are THE ONLY person to explain rice to me! lol thank you

[@sonthavoneson4786]

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[@pratimasingh2984]

Thank you for the video. This is must watch for people who waste food everyday on their plate.

[@charleswillcock3235]

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 KZbinrs 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.

[@Padiunggul]

amazing the tool is very sophisticated

[@1DJAtomic]

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!

[@bkbrom]

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.

[@jackspark1606]

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 🤗🍚🤗🍚🤗

[@jchoate705]

Great video Matthew, I got my hat in the mail. Love it and it fits great.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Awesome J! Glad the hat arrived safely. I appreciate the support. Take care. -M.

[@ZulayedAli2016]

Amazing video! Just came across your channel, learning so much!

[@untilhowlong10]

Mother Nature - takes 1 grain from us and return us back with 50!! Thank you :)

[@greghayes9118]

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?.

[@duqueirocano]

Incredible editing with the seed counting 👌

[@Thetabringer]

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 ..

[@rezaman2080]

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)

[@MrDaShread]

This is the most entertaining and well made videos on KZbin well done sir I am impressed

[@daniloecheverri6237]

Tsk for your explanation and your time my Son enjoin that . Texas

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hello there in Texas! Thanks for the message. Glad you are enjoying. -Matthew

[@stepheng1967]

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.

[@stepheng1967]

And for those who like math, the 26 pounds of rice per acre was about 520000 seeds per acre this year.

[@melenaschneider7652]

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.

[@nashguy207]

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!!!

[@Padiunggul]

Good your rice Farmers🇮🇩👍

[@bolarinwasherifdeenoluwase8228]

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

[@johnsisneros612]

I wanted to know how much an individual plant could grow now I know awesome vid ty very much

[@ନାଟ୍ୟକଳାଦର୍ପଣ]

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

[@chenhua1881]

Wow that is hard work for rice to grow

[@carelnell6359]

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.

[@OfficialBlubiefr]

EPIC! Great video. 51 it is. Thank you!

[@Inspiration-ITV]

What a brilliant video - very imaginative and engaging!

[@miftahultanipujasuma7382]

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🤲🤲👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

[@MujahidAliRicePakistan]

Nice Sharing.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Thank you, Mujahid. -M.

[@aofdemons5391]

I was curious thank you!

[@elflordsjourneys]

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.😀

[@lilwero1314]

So one plant is a mouthful of rice!🍚 🌾 😌 “YUM!”

[@vrock265]

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.

[@Fergus-H-MacLeod]

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.

[@sonthavoneson4786]

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[@helloyoutube4766]

1000000

[@sandeeppaniken6227]

Thank you so so much this is truly very helpful to me Thank you 😊🚩🙏

[@DinWongso]

Awesome 👍👍

[@jksatte]

This was really interesting. I know why but I am on a kick to know about growing rice lol. Very interesting indeed. Janice

[@hyouzanren1846]

This is the best rice counting I ever watch! 😁😁😁

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Haha! Thank you, Hyou Zan! -Matthew

[@regiltube7932]

I am new to your channel and your videos are satisfying to watch< Especially on agriculture.

[@isaacgonzalez2837]

I enjoy this video so much

[@terricoe7766]

Hi I’m wondering why we keep cooking toxic RICE. How do we tell and or what should look for to buy? Thank you 🙏🏻

[@aquahydroman7623]

Did you weigh the 52 items of rice, would have been useful info, great video though :)

[@bdeas]

51 kernels at 3:20

[@MrCamiranga]

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...

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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

[@hopelessheathen8190]

How is it going have u started yet

[@GraciaBelievesthatJesusSaves]

This was interesting 🙋

[@TanyaSRealLife]

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?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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

[@interestedabbott]

I am feeling overwhelmed. I dont think I will try to grow rice. Lol 😆

[@tucobenedicto109]

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?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Here's the link, DW: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qajJmGmLrp2Sis0 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.

[@tucobenedicto109]

Taft farms GB masssachusets

[@lykinsmark123]

Ask him to fly the crop duster during planting. That would be a fun video.

[@lykinsmark123]

Wait a minute, that's your livelihood, let's have him PRETEND to fly the crop duster during planting. Lol.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

markythearky, I flew a small passenger plane for a little bit in this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rH7RnIB-l6uceNE Too nervous! But maybe I should get my hours! -M.

[@lpmoron6258]

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.

[@KXSocialChannel]

2:05 You should be aware that this is a farmer who is also a magician.

[@Zaleroseinthecountryside]

Ohwow rice farming there is truly amazing,, using heavy equipment ,,

[@sonthavoneson4786]

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[@holulu777]

GOOD JOB.

[@Soren27]

Is it possible for someone with a very small piece of land (3 acres) to grow enough rice to feed one person. I want to know if it would be logical or if I should just focus on other vegetables.

[@phillippinter7518]

Wayyy more than enough space. 1/25 of an acre could still get you over a pound a day single cropping annually.

[@tzon6802]

I’m cooking rice right now, not planned very random vid. I’m making rice pilaf garlic n chicken out of a box

[@freshchicorice]

Hey Matt! It looked like you counted the seeds on one seed head. But aren’t there multiple heads on a plant?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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.

[@Rya_N33]

Dang not sure how I got here but this video was legit

[@80milekyle70]

Dude awesome video!

[@bobbun9630]

No tillering?

[@obtuse_one]

Imagine getting to be a rice farmer. This guy is living the dream.

[@BrandonGallemore]

Where do you buy this variety of seed?

[@IfyAboveTVShow]

Congratulations it is interesting

[@chityalarajashekhar9877]

How many acres of land u own and how much income do u get aftet all expenditures?

[@kirandeepsingh8361]

How long does it take rice to grow . please answer

[@yourgirlthando6480]

Hi! I want to plant rice at my back yard what shall I do I am in South Africa

[@deepray7400]

Do you add anything to your rice post harvest? Maybe something to keep them dry?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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.

[@dmitrysmirnov5299]

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.

[@centromedicoestrela782]

i loved the music at 2:28....can someone give me link to it

[@80milekyle70]

It's "Darude - Sandstorm"

[@JasonAndrade427]

That’s a lot and another great video 👍

[@jennaelyse7023]

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 😂

[@LouT1501]

Nice music (during the counting of kernals). But how much did they weigh?

[@kylesiebert610]

The whole plant would include all the tillers also. So it makes multiple heads off one seed planted

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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

[@kylesiebert610]

I'm a rice farmer in south Louisiana. It's neat to see how rice is grown in California.

[@lilibethresurreccion8592]

Sir hi where we can buy calrose grain. My husband is also farmer in philippines. Pls how to buy.

[@RA-iv5sd]

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)

[@vernailshavers3124]

Rice is just like a watermelon seed it is able to reproduce it self thousands of time over.thank G-D

[@onelovelybe]

How long does it take to grow rice? From farm to mature shell and from from shell to table?

[@Hajbibi]

Can rice be grown vertically indoors?

[@danielhartwig6333]

Had know idea what to expect 👍🇦🇺🍻

[@helloworldvlogs2179]

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

[@terosh7]

When are you planning on harvesting that rice? It looks like the seeds are turning golden.

[@Ricefarmingtv]

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.

[@rockylooner]

So how many plants you need to grow to produce a pound of consumable rice after processing them?

[@eimrehx]

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.

[@Beeontree]

Isn’t that the number of seed on that head only? Doesn’t each seed grow into multiple heads?

[@TheLastNerve1622]

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?

[@ngrresondo6994]

I have asked this question but yet to receive an answer. How can one prevent bird in rice farm ?

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Hi Ngrres, sorry I didn't find the time to answer you the first time. We have a variety of methods and none work very well and they all take time and money. You can honk your pickup horn, put out propane powered boom canons called Zon Guns (made in Holland), shoot shotgun blasts into the sky, hire a helicopter to fly around. They just leave your field and flew into your neighbor's field...until they scare them out back into yours 30 minutes later. It's a great question. Thanks. -Matthew

[@ronconte4292]

Doesn't each seed produce a plant with multiple tillers and multiple seed heads?

[@nickjarboe8555]

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.

[@konukuauleki]

how much each kernel weights?

[@johnbronson5972]

What about the SP grain cart ? what a run down on that

[@jamesalanstephensmith7930]

Great yield!

[@FerdausAlAmin]

A Bangladeshi rice researcher has successfully produced a rice plant variety that can help to harvest paddy 5(five) times from the same rice plant The researcher name is Dr. Abed Chowdhury. Or Spelled as Chaudjury.. He wants to harvest the same plant for five times.

[@KceeKit]

Thanks- interesting...

[@Ricefarmingtv]

Glad you enjoyed! I appreciate the message. I hope you keep in touch and let me know if you have any questions. -M.