Kynlee Rider, daughter of Blaine and Delisa Frey, keeps an eye on the thrasher of a combine as her father unloads rice into the grain cart behind the tractor she is driving. According to 2014 LSU AgCenter data, 26,061 acres of rice were planted in St. Landry Parish that year. In 2014, there were 130 rice producers in the parish, and the total gross farm value of the parish’s rice crop was $29,914,640. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)