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"About four inches of clear water pools around Mike Wagner’s rubber boots as he
wades into one of his rice fields in northwestern Mississippi on a rainy late
summer morning.
Tufts of tall, dark green grasses grow dense across the flat landscape around
him, stems arcing with the weight of nearly ripe kernels. But Wagner grabs a
stalk off a slightly lighter green plant at the field’s edge. He shakes it, and
a few grains fall into his hand. This, he explains, is weedy rice — a wild
variety that intrudes on his cultivated crop.
In his early years of running Two Brooks Farm here in the Mississippi Delta,
Wagner tried to pull out this nuisance species so it didn’t mix with the likes
of his basmati and jasmine. These days, he leaves it. It’s a favored food of
the thousands of ducks, geese and shorebirds that arrive on his farmland after
harvest every autumn."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
