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Originally Posted by SULPHITE
Who grows up outside of a farming family and says "I'll think I'll become a rice farmer" ? Has it become too hard to make ends meet rice farming? Does cattle bring in more? Are the next generations not wanting to rice farm?
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Interesting points you're making. Seems the guberment will be scaling back their subsidies to domestic rice farmers this coming year. Most can't make ends meet without the gov. help. Most around here are turning to sugar cane and to some extent soybeans. There are many water wells that are sanding up in our area from over-use because of the drought and rice pond crawfishing. Runs around $50-70,000 to dig a deeper well using 6-8" pipe. Harder times are ahead for our local rice farmers. Too bad ducks and doves don't eat sugarcane....the face of agriculture is slowly changing in South La.