Louisiana Rice Harvest

It's definitely not your usual kind of farming! Louisiana farmer Christian Richard will harvest some six million pounds of rice this season, but he'll also bring in a tasty crop of crawfish from the same fields. Louisiana rice is shipped around the world and is an important ingredient in humanitarian food efforts in Haiti and elsewhere.

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  • @sarah_farm
    @sarah_farm6 ай бұрын

    Such a fresh and organic harvest

  • @Kaptoj
    @Kaptoj13 жыл бұрын

    beautiful wife!

  • @marcusjames3814
    @marcusjames3814 Жыл бұрын

    My friend christan

  • @doctorlyrico7849
    @doctorlyrico78492 жыл бұрын

    Oh

  • @robertpayne2717
    @robertpayne27172 жыл бұрын

    If you pull up a rice plant by the roots at harvest you'll find the seed husk from the seed that was planted still attached to the roots.

  • @Padiunggul
    @Padiunggul3 жыл бұрын

    😍😍😍

  • @tractoragriculture1352
    @tractoragriculture13523 жыл бұрын

    great farms

  • @berajpatel8081
    @berajpatel80813 жыл бұрын

    No idea that southern folk loved rice ! Though the staple was potato chips . Very cool !

  • @bradpolmateer4965
    @bradpolmateer49653 жыл бұрын

    Lol I left my engineering class to be a mason

  • @jasemaxable
    @jasemaxable3 жыл бұрын

    Hi. Where does the straw go. Do you feed the straw to animals?

  • @SaleemKhan-qr6od
    @SaleemKhan-qr6od4 жыл бұрын

    Still can't beat original basmati rise from Pakistan.

  • @mattsprayberry0
    @mattsprayberry04 жыл бұрын

    Umm the only harvest that was done here was the Crawfish other than that it was just planting rice.

  • @afrocelticfamily9017
    @afrocelticfamily90174 жыл бұрын

    Great job and many thanks to all the farmers for a job well done The world will never survive without farmers . 🇱🇷&🇨🇮 .

  • @johnmoore8016
    @johnmoore80165 жыл бұрын

    In the far east don't they raise shrimp in their rice fields? Thanks for a very good video. didn't know about the muc bugs growing in the rice fields

  • @oopopp
    @oopopp6 жыл бұрын

    Not worth it... Too much water for such a low price product.... if you're gonna flood the field try growing avocados....

  • @Hohmies86

    @Hohmies86

    6 жыл бұрын

    oopopp x the don’t buy that water dummy it’s sitting in holding ponds then they flood the field with essentially rain water

  • @lilianepinheiro1554
    @lilianepinheiro15546 жыл бұрын

    model of the sowing of the 0:43

  • @kanugoltar9196
    @kanugoltar91966 жыл бұрын

    I like you

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme6 жыл бұрын

    OK where the heck did the crawfish come from??

  • @Hohmies86

    @Hohmies86

    6 жыл бұрын

    Russell Anderson crawfish love shallow water, the pretty much come from the ground and flourish in the wet environment, weather has a lot to do with a good or bad crawfish season

  • @davidlegg1034
    @davidlegg10346 жыл бұрын

    "Never criticize a Farmer with your mouth full" This was said to me at school 50 years ago and it still is in my head.

  • @agusiswahwah6429
    @agusiswahwah64297 жыл бұрын

    US farmer.. 👍👍👍

  • @erikg6869
    @erikg68698 жыл бұрын

    Thank fossil fuels for providing the energy to make, and run farm machinery so farmers can grow enough food to feed everybody.

  • @naktura7409

    @naktura7409

    7 жыл бұрын

    Pretty soon we'll be back to thanking the lightgiver Sun for providing the energy to uor solar panels so that we can run electric machinery. I know this was a jab at hippy liberals who are anti-fossil fuel usage, but without oil and coal, we would still have enough food to feed everyone. The only difference would be an increase in the number of farmers.

  • @jmitterii2

    @jmitterii2

    5 жыл бұрын

    The double edge sword of fossil fuels will be the CO2 emissions that will cause climates to change in sudden and harsh manners leading to failed crop yields, lesser variety, and eventually inability to produce much of any food. We need to be looking to the future, solar, wind, and especially LFTR fission and ultimately ITER/Wendelstein 7x fusion to energize grids to produce enough electricity CO2 free and without much waste to none at all in huge quantities that producing H2 via electrolysis of H2O (water) can run machines via an H2 fuel cell. Much like the early 1900's people thanks the machines to produce food until the dust bowl, then realized how to properly teal top soil. We really need to thank continued innovation and not sit on our laurels thanking passing technologies.

  • @user-hk3vu4mh4q

    @user-hk3vu4mh4q

    3 жыл бұрын

    bio fuel

  • @FishNChipsBro
    @FishNChipsBro8 жыл бұрын

    that guy's shirt is so green.

  • @sam111880
    @sam1118808 жыл бұрын

    Amazing rice looks more intense then some fruits and veg's . And you get crawfish in the mix I wonder if growing rice hydroponically could be used for mass production like large fields of inground swimming pools

  • @SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE
    @SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE8 жыл бұрын

    Amazing. farmers in the USA and the WEST can afford hundred thousand dollar equipment like the trucks and the combines. here in the Philippines from birth to adulthood i still see our farmers still losing money even when they are using water buffalo and with no automation.

  • @SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE

    @SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well i don't meant autonomous machines. i meant tools that the farmers themselves can use. its not going to replace them because they will be the one operating it.

  • @anyaforger8409
    @anyaforger84098 жыл бұрын

    We asians plant it expertly.

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    you spanish,ok

  • @JesonDawi

    @JesonDawi

    7 жыл бұрын

    he's probably a Filipino(Philippines) spanish colony.

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    7 жыл бұрын

    cool

  • @anyaforger8409

    @anyaforger8409

    7 жыл бұрын

    +michael wind ?

  • @views-ml1ry
    @views-ml1ry8 жыл бұрын

    Completely misleading documentary. Farming in the US is not as powerful as they make it seem in this documentary. The extreme majority of, not only rice but everything, is imported. :o

  • @nikolastrela1527
    @nikolastrela15278 жыл бұрын

    причём тут раки.

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    they raise them in rice fields.

  • @childofthmosthighs1397
    @childofthmosthighs13978 жыл бұрын

    good job degrading a whole lot of land and growing shit food

  • @heidbrain
    @heidbrain9 жыл бұрын

    i didn't see any harvesting

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    its was fast

  • @jmitterii2

    @jmitterii2

    5 жыл бұрын

    Crawdads were harvested though.

  • @myhealthtoo
    @myhealthtoo9 жыл бұрын

    but how is it harvest and does it get washed and where does brown rice come from??

  • @farmallskittle

    @farmallskittle

    8 жыл бұрын

    +thetruth same plant for brown and white rice just remove the outer shell for white rice did you pay any attention to the video

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    my brown rice comes from costco.

  • @myhealthtoo

    @myhealthtoo

    8 жыл бұрын

    michael wind People wash your rice at least 3 times with white until white cloudy water is gone. No loss of nutrient what so ever.

  • @down4mah2
    @down4mah29 жыл бұрын

    gmo rice

  • @reinhardgurganstunph7194

    @reinhardgurganstunph7194

    9 жыл бұрын

    Seedless watermelons and all modern bananas are GMO's, among many other things.

  • @down4mah2

    @down4mah2

    9 жыл бұрын

    you mean among EVERY thing

  • @greenfingersgardener822

    @greenfingersgardener822

    9 жыл бұрын

    down4mah2 NO, he means among other things....

  • @dirtymikentheboys5817

    @dirtymikentheboys5817

    9 жыл бұрын

    Reinhard Gurganstunph Bananas arnt gmo, and seedless watermelon is hybrid.

  • @donnk

    @donnk

    9 жыл бұрын

    down4mah2 GMO saves the world from starvation...nothing wrong with it...you have massive populations but you also have disease and pest resistant high yield rice

  • @TKSMotorsports
    @TKSMotorsports10 жыл бұрын

    That is an awesome video. I never knew anything rice farming. Growing up on a farm here in KY, all we raised was hay, cattle, and tobacco.

  • @MrPeepeehead1
    @MrPeepeehead110 жыл бұрын

    Looks like southern farmers wash their tractors as often as they brush their tooth.

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    yea,go tell em that in person,yea on a dark rainy day,lol,lets make a video of you telling them country folk,ok

  • @sanyasiraosenapathi3164
    @sanyasiraosenapathi316410 жыл бұрын

    Good S S Rao

  • @nickwest3157
    @nickwest315710 жыл бұрын

    he should go back to that teacher and tell him "look at me now, i'm feeding the world."

  • @Elizabeth-tj2qj

    @Elizabeth-tj2qj

    6 жыл бұрын

    I wonder what his teacher would say, if he did tell him/her

  • @oneGrandma
    @oneGrandma10 жыл бұрын

    What makes the crawfish work for you? You have to reflood how soon after harvest? Do they grow all winter if they have the water? What variety of crayfish do you grow?

  • @oneGrandma
    @oneGrandma10 жыл бұрын

    You are great you didnt throw other farmers under the bus. So many times I see one farmer do that to another You people are great.

  • @victorgr2703
    @victorgr270310 жыл бұрын

    I meant crawfish!

  • @victorgr2703
    @victorgr270310 жыл бұрын

    What does crayfish do?

  • @creativeoption1

    @creativeoption1

    8 жыл бұрын

    they just move in the mud,they do not fly

  • @jamesmccord1944

    @jamesmccord1944

    5 жыл бұрын

    they grow and become delicious

  • @99cachorro
    @99cachorro10 жыл бұрын

    Arsenic in toxic levels in this rice. It's not the farmers fault, rice naturally absorbs arsenic from the water efficiently.

  • @Buzzbox3rd
    @Buzzbox3rd11 жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @hot777rod
    @hot777rod11 жыл бұрын

    !!!

  • @hot777rod
    @hot777rod11 жыл бұрын

    !!!

  • @hot777rod
    @hot777rod11 жыл бұрын

    !!!

  • @ih1206
    @ih120611 жыл бұрын

    interesting. I grew up on a farm and have been involved with farming all my life, but I never knew much about rice. learn something new every day.

  • @dharamveersaini9899

    @dharamveersaini9899

    7 жыл бұрын

    hi I would like see your farm

  • @TOPXSHOTXSNIPER
    @TOPXSHOTXSNIPER11 жыл бұрын

    its just an air seeder.

  • @spicyF1
    @spicyF111 жыл бұрын

    what is the name of that machine that plants the rice

  • @searchlight22
    @searchlight2211 жыл бұрын

    What a nice way to earn a living.

  • @xtheritalinx
    @xtheritalinx12 жыл бұрын

    I want to go work for him!

  • @lugie28
    @lugie2812 жыл бұрын

    Wow!!! This man Christian Richard is an amazing man. I also love how his wife stands by his side through all his hard work. I believe his blessed because he gives as well. Nice!!!!!

  • @marcusjames3814

    @marcusjames3814

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes my fris is amazing 👏

  • @farmerallis
    @farmerallis12 жыл бұрын

    holy crusted soil batman!