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GeorgeH

04-10-2007 09:15:33




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My son is currently driving through Arkansas on his way to Texas on I-40 around Carlisle and has observed what appears to be unplanted fields with ridges of dirt (maybe 12 inches high)in uneven and crooked rows with covering of tarp of some sort in places on top of the rows of dirt.

Any input on what this is? My pure guess is rice.




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Uncle

04-10-2007 10:55:23




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 Re: Farming in reply to GeorgeH, 04-10-2007 09:15:33  
It's rice. I was through there the other day. The levy's that you see help with the flooding of the fields. If the ground is not real level, the levy's break it into smaller sections so when they flood the fields the water level can me easily managed.



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school teacher

04-10-2007 09:53:16




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 Re: Farming in reply to GeorgeH, 04-10-2007 09:15:33  
Sounds like rice. Arkansas is the US #1 producer of rice



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rrlund

04-10-2007 09:47:17




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 Re: Farming in reply to GeorgeH, 04-10-2007 09:15:33  
More likely cotton I would think.



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James Babcock

04-10-2007 10:57:01




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 Re: Farming in reply to rrlund, 04-10-2007 09:47:17  
What you are describing sounds like a rice field with mini-levees that control the water when the fields are flooded. The plastic things are used to prevent erosion when the water flows from one "compartment" to the other through a low spot in the little levee. The levees meander around to follow the contour of the land and stay on a constant elevation. If you have the bucks, you can get an earthmover controlled by a laser level and make huge areas perfectly flat and level and not have to use any levees.

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rrlund

04-11-2007 07:27:18




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 Re: Farming in reply to James Babcock, 04-10-2007 10:57:01  
OK,I didn't get the gist of the question. I thought the ridges were rows. Yep,a lot of rice down there and in the Missouri bootheel.



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