Is there a certain kind of bird that’s prominent in a rice field?
Yeah, I guess you have the egrets; you have the, I don’t know what the scientific names—we have names for them: groesbecks and beckcraws, and we have black mallards. Ducks winter over this area. How do you harvest? Is it all mechanized? Yes, it’s all mechanized. We have self-propelled combines that harvest the crop. We have carts that haul it from the combine to the trucks. The trucks then take it from the field to the rice dryers, and—and it can be either a commercial dryer, or the majority of the people in this area have their own farm storage and their own dryers. They dry it themselves, and that way they can hold it and market as the market dictates, you know, because usually at harvest is the lowest price. So people try to hold it as long as they—you can, to try to get the better price. Okay, and then…the hulls get taken off? Right. Then you—then you sell it. The farmer will sell it to a processor, which will either be a mill that’ll take it in and process it, remove the hulls, re
