re: Duck reports, feet hanging, we banging

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In my experience rice in a rice field only lasts a few weeks into the season if that....its other seed bearing plants that take root and produce that attracts waterfowl. I take your point though about the fields being plowed down to dust....if that is the case any plant taking root and producing food would be limited. I was in a lease outside of Stuttgart between 1984 and 1990 and we had rice fields and timber and the rice fields never had a lot of rice in them during the season but other weeds flourished in them....but that may have been more a function of those relatively small tracts being managed for waterfowl as much as rice....

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invertabrates living in the rice and other moist soil plants may be more important for waterfowl than the rice or other plants... no invertabrates = no ducks