First for me too !

Some cut a second (ratoon) crop in the fall. Some just flood them back and load them with crawfish. Most of the rice farmers down here use the rice fields to raise crawfish as it is a very lucrative business.

@@AerialAg The crawfish can definitely be more lucrative as it doesn't require a couple million in equipment costs. You can get a brand new boat (fully loaded top of the line basket wheel boat may be 25k or so, maybe less) and 1000 traps for under 40k, probably less. Used stuff for way less, gotta have the land and pump though and that ain't cheap either

They raise crawfish in these fields after harvest. The crawfish eat it.

Insects, there's tons of grasshoppers around in South La. right now

@@AerialAg Makes sense. Good for the birds.

And you are not going to this is in Louisiana usa. Unless there is water buffalo here I ain't never seen one or heard one but I live in Georgia and learning how to grow peanuts and corn and cotton

I'll take open farmland over cities and subdivisions any day.

@@AerialAg Me too, but what i meant more was as opposed to small farms.

@@beeqool Oh now I understand. All of the rice farms I've ever visited have been family owned which is good. But yes, all of the equipment I've seen have definitely been of a larger size.