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When you think about Great Southern foods rice is an essential ingredient you name the dish it's got rice in it but here in Louisiana rice is an important commodity to farmers but raising rice here means a balance between crops and crustaceans check the menu it's Weir's grocery and restaurant and Kaplan Louisiana and the Cajun cuisine revolves around rice and crawfish it's even written on the walls and right in the middle of the store you'll find bags and bags of rice all grown on farms just a short distance away Christian Rashad will raise and harvest some six million pounds of rice this season it's a big crop that starts with one tiny seed, so this is brown and white rice right absolutely this is actually an exact same thing that's going to be harvested in four months Wow then if you pass it through a combine then they'll go into what they call a rice mill Louisiana farmers will plant nearly half a million acres of rice it's a three hundred and seventy million dollar commodity in the state and with the growing rice consumption across the country it's an American crop taking on a bigger and bigger significance once at the rice mill Christians crop will be transformed and this seed is for lack of a better term this is practically brown rice there's your rice right there the rice is here then to make white rice they'll just keep polishing it take the brand layer off, and then you end up with white rice Christian comes from a long line of rice farmers but originally thought that engineering might be his future told one of my engineering teachers that I wanted to I wanted to go out and be a farmer because that's all about I didn't want to stay in his class any longer, and he said oh you laugh time you say you want to feed the world huh feeding the world now includes a Rashad baby the Christian and his wife Julie are expecting hopefully we have a little one at the end of the year to carry it off the year the addition to their family has also focused snow importance on the role that their crop plays for families around the world you always hear the bad things you know the farmer did this or the farmer did that but a lot of times they don't realize that you know when Haiti needed to rice the Louisiana rice growers shipped a barge of rice down there this group of farmers usually you know as well as the rest of them from across the country they usually play a significant role in that Christian this field was planted what about a month ago yes and some are just starting to sprout here the seeds you showed me earlier are they still attached yes they sure it doesn't really shed its actual shell until much later in the cycle if it actually ever does shed there's a piece of rice and then this will grow into large stalks that go how high uh typically about 40 inches in height one interesting note about rice farming in Louisiana the flooded fields are not only used for rice they are stocked with crawfish which then return an aquatic crop and so you see here...