Standing on a rickety wooden platform at the edge of more than 80 acres of water, rice and natural grasses, Stephen Minvielle surveys his crop – as best he can.
The problem is that he doesn’t know how it’s doing.
“With rice, corn or any grain crops, an untrained observer can stand at the edge of a field and theorize by the look of the crop whether production levels will be good or bad,” explained the 52-year old Minvielle.
With this crop, “you stand at the edge of a crawfish pond and you have no earthly idea.”
Such is the uncertainty of farming freshwater crustaceans.
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