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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
Here is a crop I would be willing to bet most of you do not get a chance to see growing.

While a grain sorghum field in full bloom looks very good nothing beats the carpet look of a nice rice field.
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John,
That is a nice looking field alright. But a nice thick stand of Wisconsin alfalfa is a field of beauty also.
LA in WI
 
Those pictures are not even of the same field. They were taken about a minute apart while going 65mph down the road so each picture may be a mile apart. You can drive for miles and miles and see nothing but rice fields.

Each picture contains many fields also. While none of these pictures show it you can often see the field shapes marked by Johnson grass and other weeds growing on the levees that divide each field.
The fields are often not square blocks like you guys are familiar with. The fields are laid out in what ever shape takes advantage of the water flow because rice grows in flooded fields.

But to answer your question.....
I have no idea.
 
John, when we were visiting Marilyn's brother in Mississippi I climbed the ladder on a bin full of rice and looked in the hatch. This Iowa boy had never seen rice in the hull before then. It looked similar to a bin of oats and nothing like the hulled and processed rice we see in the store. That's what makes traveling to other farming areas fun. Jim
 
Yes Jim.
That is why I like posting and looking at pictures from others on this site.

Here is a few I will steal of the internet.

You are riding along in rice country and come across a field with a bunch of plastic pipe sticking out the rice field.

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Then you see some guys riding around in a boat with wheels on it.

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And wonder what the heck are they doing in that rice field.
They are harvesting crawfish.
Crawfish is a rotational crop for rice.

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Back before combines had cabs, I was told that it was sometimes hard to get operators because the dust from the rice was nasty and irritating to the skin. Is that right?
 
I do know rice is very abrasive to harvesting equipment so maybe the dust is too. It makes sense to double crop with crawdads. The water is already there. Jim
 
Richard Bell that is or was the head of riceland and previously assistant secretary of ag, came from Wapella, IL. About 10 miles waest of me.
 
John I've seen some of those crawfish boats when I was running back and forth between Baton Rouge and Houston.
That is pretty interesting. Also I was wondering about the cottonmouths that must be out there.
I've worked with some guys from Arkansas that talked about "laser leveling" rice fields so the water covers them completely. They use a lot of dikes too.
 
Lets see.......
Thousands of acres of flooded fields; a good food supply; and areas well away from homes and people.

Yea they might have one or two cottonmouths out there.

LSU was doing some studies on laser leveling and erosion as a lot of these guys use it. Do not really know the outcome of the study.
You can tell the fields that are laser leveled by their shape. The block fields are laser leveled; the weird shaped fields are not. So of those levees look like a snake out across a field as it follows the natural contour of the land.

Rice farming is like nothing most of you guys could even imagine.
Take this guy. What is he doing????

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So what do you think he is doing? Spraying herbicide.
Now look at the picture again and see if you come up with the same answer.


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That's right. he is not spraying a crop; he is planting a crop. Just one of several ways you can plant rice.
 
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