Today we traveled north on I-49 between Lafayette (I-10) and Shreveport (I-20). As previously posted, the area had been under flash flood warning. Actually this turned out more than a warning, based on video we saw on the local news… In any case, as we are driving up, I see flooded fields with vegetation sticking out that is organized in neat rows. So I tell Claudette, “hey, don’t you think that this looks like a rice field?” So we turn over to Google and did a search on that topic. Sure enough, according to the USA rice federation, Louisiana is the 3rd largest rice-producing state in the USA (behind Arkansas and California). 425,000 acres of rice were planted on 823 farms in 2019, and rice production contributes >$308 million to the state economy.