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Crop dusters speed planting South Louisiana’s rice

Thu, 04/09/2015 - 6:22am

Doug Biessenberger banks his Air Tractor 502 as he seeds a rice field near Eunice. (Photo by Claudette Olivier)

A crop duster can hold about 3,000 pounds of rice in its hopper, and getting the 26,061 acres of rice planted in St. Landry Parish takes the help of pilots like Doug Biessenberger of Mowata Flying Service and Bradley Reed of Reed Aviation.

South Louisiana rice planting off to good start

Fri, 04/03/2015 - 1:27pm

Farmer Kenneth LaHaye, of Vidrine, plants his rice crop west of Mamou with a seed drill. LSU AgCenter agents are estimating that more than half of the south Louisiana rice crop has been planted. (Photo by Bruce Schultz)

Rice farmers in south Louisiana have been taking advantage of favorable weather to start their growing season with estimates of more than half the acreage planted.

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