Duck Hunting Baiting Question

[Tete Dur]

I am in a new lease this year for duck season and the farmer doesn't cut his second crop of rice. He leaves it standing so there is voluntary rice that grows which would normally be his second crop. After cutting the first crop he does NOT flood the fields for his second crop. Everything that comes up is strictly voluntary. Some of the other blinds on the lease like to just make potholes in the stubble/voluntary second crop for big duck season. The farmer will actually use his buffalo for these pot holes for the blinds.

My question is, is this baiting since the second crop was not harvested even though he didn't flood the fields for the second crop to grow properly? Do we have to get the entire cut buffaloed to be legal?