2fer is an asshole.
*Kevin, I just saw a bill in a pile of paperwork on my kitchen counter that says I owe you a bunch of money. I'll pay you eventually, I'm sure.
You can probably get all the big city yuppies to pay more for a blind lease if it's a "rice plantation".
No, put a rice field in close proximity to a corn field and corn will win. It's like sunflowers or an alternative for doves imo
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. -Tecumseh-
corn reigns supreme
Any kind of rice can make your bowels impounded.
I prefer saffron rice. It’s an anti-inflammatory, and I can use all the help I can get. Getting old is no joke.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. -Tecumseh-
I sold 4 bags of rice to duck hunters this year, I sold alot of corn seed to people that will hunt ducks over it.
If you don't just love paella then I don't want to meet you.
Saffron succotash also a proven producer on ducks. Just the facts in my honest opinion.
Probably have to use some of that Texas organic Jasmine rice.......
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” Lord Byron
Brown top millet should really be a part of this conversation
"I swear if I found you in a marsh I don't know that I could keep myself from mud stomping you" -Griffin
My opinion is that the op requested only facts. <> Fact.
There is a local guy that has spearheaded rice cultivation for the last several years and seems to do well with it.
He planted a small section of the Pine Island Unit SNWR last year and it stacked with mallards and blacks until they cleaned it out.
It did well enough that about 50 acres of Cuddo’s Timber Island pond will be rice this year.
He knows what he’s doing, and times his harvest just before the bobolinks and redwings arrive in numbers then leaves the secondary crop (ratoon) for waterfowl.
I don’t know a whole lot about it, but could put you in touch with him.
Ducks are adaptable. If all of us went to rice, the ducks would eat rice.
If only you went to rice (after decades of them being adapted to corn) and your neighbors stayed with corn, you would have less birds than they did.
But if everybody did it, they would adapt just fine.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
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