 Along with this, government payments also directly impact Arkansas farm revenues, and in turn the quality of the crop/its profitability due to the programs and methods the government encourages (such as crop mixing as a way to manage risk).Economic return of rice crops within Arkansas vary markedly depending on variety cultivated, methods of crop rotation, region of the state it is grown in, methods of cultivation, etc.For example, "continuous rice produced the largest gross returns [from 2000-2001] per hectare
on average, ranging from $936.94 ha−1 to $1195.83 ha−1," whereas "the rice-corn rotation produced the smallest gross returns on average," only yielding $749.24 ha−1 to $1003.79 ha−1.