Posted by John in La on July 06, 2014 at 19:47:02 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Re: Rice Fields posted by ShakerPrairie on July 06, 2014 at 18:46:57:
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????
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.
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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