Large scale rice production in the state of Arkansas became a significant industry in the late 19th/early 20th century with its wide scale propagation within the state by entrepreneur W.H. Fuller around 1896.
A cubic yard of sand approximately weighs 1.3 tons, 2,600 pounds ,or (for non imperial people) 1,179.34 kilograms.
So figure 900 pounds per cubic yard. If you are figurâ¦ing that the dirt you received was 100lbs per cubic foot, than a cubic yard, which is 27 cubic feet, would weigh 2700lbs. So, 7 cubic yards using your figures of 100lbs per cubic foot should have weighed 18,900lbs.