Integrated Duck Rice Farming - Part One
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- Опубликовано: 29 июл 2017
- Part one in a series about Integrated Duck Rice Farming in Vermont. Our friendly farmer, Erik Andrus, grows northern varieties of rice at Bound Brook Farm in Vergennes, Vermont that are suited to the New England climate. He uses ducks for pest management and weed control, resulting in a delicious all-natural rice product.
Contact Erik at www.vermontrice.net 
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I really hope you keep giving us some updates on this project. Your videos are so well made! Excellent job!
Great informative series you have here. Keep up the good work.
Best informative videos yet! I am a new rice farmer in South Carolina. These videos have a lot of useful information. Thank you!
Thanks! Are you growing Carolina Gold?
erik andrus plenty of people are growing Carolina gold for the local market. I am growing 6 acres of Chinese Black rice. I am planning to plant Jefferson Rufipogon and Vialone Nano in the spring of 2019. I have to build up seed stock first. I would like to speak with you in the near future over the phone.
Great storytelling. I learned a lot of stuff I'd never thought to think about.
Thanks!
nice
Wow good, i saw your comments in another video in Philippine
This is very interesting.
came here for the COW but it turns out it was a HORSE LOL
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
I think duck-rice farming will be hard to manage on an industrial scale.
True. But our goal is to help return agriculture from an industrial scale to a human scale. I believe that human-scale farming is where the future lies.
You make sense in your own setting. In countries with densely populated cities and where machinery is not affordable to individuals, human scale won't feed millions. Only mass production can.
Here in my home area, mass production farming has led to expensive water pollution problems that the taxpayer now must clean up at great expense, and the indebtedness and general hopelessness of the small number of remaining farmers (dairy). We now have only around 800 dairy farms in a state that had 22000 just 35 years ago. Maybe some consumers benefit from food being cheap, but for farmers as a class, the industrial model has not delivered the benefits promised and has done great harm.
But, these films are not political in nature. They are about an example that works in its context. If you seek industrial farming video content, there is plenty of that available elsewhere.
My comment is not a criticism, just an observation on a particular scenario. So do not take is as a swipe.
I too love the idea of self-sufficiency in everything. Grow your own food. Generate your own power. Etc. But some things are just not practical in densely populated places. Imagine trying to grow your own food in a city like Manhattan. Not possible! So then how do we feed the nine million people that live in NYC, who can't farm? Through industrial farming of course.
I love these video series. They've taught me a lot about how rice is grown. Whoever watches them, can adapt the knowledge gained to his specific case.
Dare to dream boy!
lol cool
Wonderful strategy for small scale farming. Kindly advise how I can reach out for further inquiries
where did you find the planter? how much?
The transplanter we use was under $1000, purchased used in Japan and imported.
if everyone in the world eat less red meats; then we will be able to afford less intensive farming, as huge portion of the farms go to producing feed for the livestock