The Unlikely Success of Farming Rice in Maryland | MDF&H
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- It’s late summer and the rice is high and ready for harvest. No, this isn’t a rice paddy in Asia or Mississippi it’s smack dab in Prince George's County. Nazirahk Amen of Purple Mountain Grown has been growing rice in the DMV for almost a decade and today he is harvesting one of the seven varieties that he grows and sells.
00:00 Intro
00:40 Unusual Technique
01:35 Special Farm Equipment
03:03 Traditional Methods
04:15 Dry Field Prep
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Didn't know flooding was more for pest control than anything else, great video!
flooding is for weed, grass control, not pest.
Annnd, water is free! Check out where rice is grown, and you'll see that they get a lot of rain. (Let's not look at Arkansan.)
Flooding is also for temperature regulation although it's not the main purpose.
Don’t believe the PBS propaganda. Grain size is the thing affected most by the availability of inundation irrigation. Long grain rice that has big grains is the best, no matter the variety. Rice is a water intensive crop and we need to stop trying to grow water intensive crops in climates that don’t suite.
Weeds and grass are pests....... Especially in my damn garden@@Curious_BeingNX
Masanubo Fukuoka pioneered this techique in Japan. His book is called "Natural Farming"
Yes, indeed
Freak out, I want some rice. I could watch that farmer all day. Excelent in site with great clarity.
I am so impressed. I missed seeing if he sells his rice. This would be something I’d look for at a farmer’s market.
What else would he do with it
@@fitrianhidayatthrow it away because no one bought it? Farming is extremely hard
@@fitrianhidayat In the video he said they try and grow as much of their own food as possible and in the past they were lacking in grains.
When I first saw this man, I thought he would speak like he was from India. After a couple of sentences, I realized it's a brother. A farming brother! As we would say when I was in the hood, "that's alllright!" May God bless you!
I am incredibly impressed by this gentleman methods. I grew up in maryland and I cannot imagine growing rice in MD. Wow blessings brother.
There are dry rice varieties grown around the world. Water source is from rain just like other crops. Wet rice varieties have shorter life cycle that allows planting rice 3-4 crops every year.
Good to know. In Asia, they’ll have ducks and fish in the same pond. Ducks keep down snail populations, fish fertilize it all! I WILL try dry rice ag!
Using the same piece of land to produce several crops verses this method.
this person is a guru here, hope he gets talks to share his knowledge to the world. stay strong and healthy man.
Maryland has also Developed and is improving a Rice that can be grown in Salt Contaminated Soils, Contaminated from Hurricanes on the Eastern Shore. Working on Strains, that can tolerate more and more Salt.
They are working on perennial rice as well - it doe snot need replanting, it grows back every year
I really hope he enjoys success.
Productive gentleman...wish him growth & success
Why is it that every time there's a black guy and he's not a criminal you lot call him a gentleman? I have never seen anyone else every called a gentleman in the year 2024. Reading the comments its starting to feel like "wow he's so articulate" type stuff.
@@jasonhymes3382 i don't know, never thought about it lad. But maybe because its the English in me...and of course, he's not a criminal. Can't call the latter a gentleman regardless of race.
This is super cool. Thanks for sharing
*THAT WAS AMAZING...!!!*
Very interesting I'm from Arkansas and know all about growing rice in water .
upland or dry rice farming been done in the Philippines for while. This is done in the mountains
using rain as irrigation only
Excellent video - Thanks!
very interesting, ingenious folks
Absolutely fantastic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Yanmar or Kubota rice harvesters can be had for $25K + and the planting machine about 1/4 that cost. Can also share with the neighbors as does many acres per day.
Smart man
Fantastic 🎉
Nice video, thanks 👍 for sharing.
Super interesting to see the water usage reduced.
That is so cool!
I may have to try this in my garden! homemade rice, pickles, and herbs could be a pretty good dish
This guy is epic. Show me his cabbage field 😂
So great to see
Growing rice without water flooding is a fairly common practice in the hilly/mountainous terrains of Asia, it's an old practice too, usually referred to as upland rice . I have seen traditonal farmers grow such rice in the nearby villages up in the hills from where I live.
Super cool 😊
good job
Excellent video, very interesting. I could watch the lady all day though..
it is really an interesting ag clips.
I’m impressed
Keep trying
Keep experimenting
Google translate has a camera option. That could translate the manuals and stickers easily
First thing i thought. Or even Chatgpt or perplexity has the same option.
Good job.
Love the purple name.
I lived in Takoma Park when there really were a few farms there. As a kid, I think I walked everywhere in the city. The address of this 'farm' is on a steep hill and I lived for a time about a block away. There is virtually no flat land there and the location of this 'farm' is in Montgomery county, not Prince Georges. In fact, the entire city is in Montgomery county. Besides, idiots that run the city would never allow a farm in their paradise - the reason I left.
really neat idea my late uncle was not a farmer but he owned farmland on easter shore would have talked about this if he was still here . only problem like the farmer stated 1.5 acres is as much as his operation can handle due to manpower requirement. the harvester cool but other parts would need machines .
Nice to see black farmers.
Impressive
Wow!
TheZeeroc just proved that it is unsustainable to cultivate more than 1.5 acre using manual transplanting.
My advice buy a rice transplanter from India or Japan , It will be cheaper to import and plants 3 acre per day * 20 days = 60 acre per season .
Do they work with tarp like on his field?
Hand planting is very labor intensive. It would be hard to scale up economically.
an american rastafarian(?) oakley wearing rice farmer who sounds like the stoners i dormed with in college in the PNW... I'd have a beer with this guy for sure lol
Have some respect man, Rastfarian with a capital R, and better to smoke a joint since Rasta usually don't drink. 🦁
Awesome video, where can I find more info on this?
Ohh sorry, I was looking for the dry ICE revolution
Very interesting video, please note Takoma Park is in Montgomery County, not Prince Georges
So, please let me know where was the video done, PG or Montgomery county??
Takoma Park is in both Montgomery and Prince Georges. The portion by New Hampshire Av and University Blvd is in P.G.
@@antoniojaquez2564 It's address is on Carroll Av. It should be in Montgomery County or could be on both sides of the county line.
japan plant rice too and there is snow there in winter
How do you talk/ask about the varieties of rice they are using seems pretty important to know that more so than you have to use google to find equipment?
I'd never guess this guy would want to reduce the amount of weed in his field
Mansanto will soon come knocking at the door
Translation is no longer a problem. Your phone can do that for you.
Kääntäminen ei ole enää ongelma. Puhelimesi voi tehdä sen puolestasi.
I aways thought rice could be grown in parts of Dorchester and Somerset county if someone was willing to try it.
How hard is it to recover and recycle the plastic?
There is no way this system is commercially viable.
It's a fun hobby.
Does he do training?
👍👌💯
Nice video? Genius man is more like it.
Red rice 2.80 $ lb
X 6k lb acre
I wonder when that genius is going to realize his phone can translate that Japanese LOL
Google translations are really rough and probably don't work well with detailed instructions.
I wonder if this could work in northern Germany?
Monsanto must hate this dude.
Nice. Profits? I like to eat cheap.
If you really want to skyrocket your business post the arsenic level in your rice (hopefully it's low) that's the growing number one concern with consumers.
Seeing them plant by hand and on foot made me think of the Veggie boys sitting behind a tractor, still planting by hand but not on foot. ruclips.net/video/y-lcK7hdqfM/видео.html You could really speed things up if there's a machine that can plant from trays without any hands involved.
Orange man turn 3: 3:33 25
6k lb acre
Pretty rad🤠but...I don't understand how an acre and a half can financially justify the machine purchase, especially when there's still a lot of labor involved. How many years does it take to pay machine off?
You'd be surprised...$15,000 will buy you the very best of a used ex-Japan rice combine harvester.
Good question actually. He mentioned how much they produced, but not knowing the value of that rice in his market area makes it impossible to judge for me.
Lotta plastic which deteriorates and runs off. Cool video though. Hopefully they find a replacement for plastic soon.
The alternative is flooding the fields... This was explained in the video.
And if he did that a bunch of these 'comment section professionals' would cry about water usage.
Or there's the alternative that all the big farmers use... Toxic pesticides
@@jaynedoug9453 I'm well aware. I watched. I was just stating. Hopefully one day! Then can find a replacement for plastic. In all aspects. Where it's used.
That’s really cool but I can’t see him making much profit off 1.5 acres.
Oh ok so this process uses a LOT of plastic; What's done with the plastic after harvest?
That plastic gets used by small farmers for all sorts of crops (especially tomatoes) and has been for decades. This is nothing new.
And it gets disposed of the same way all plastic gets disposed of... Burned or buried
The alternative to that plastic is pesticides by the way.
@@jaynedoug9453 ah thank you!
People have been growing rice in the southern states since the states were created but forgotten by cheap imports. Nothing new, just retro
6000 pounds of rice is not a commercial crop.
this guy could never earn enough to every pay off
his equipment costs.
this is hobby farming.
With premium priced organic rice...he might make a go it
Of course, I can (& will) say the same & more about rice farms around me, here in SE Texas.
Couple of decades ago the DIRECT to farmer subsidy for rice was so big it threatened to become a political embarrassment since it's so specialized, so capital intensive (irrigation water, pumps, special harvesting equip etc). It served a TINY number of families. Congress had to stop the DIRECT cash payoff to rice growers. Now the subsidy is hidden inside taxpayer crop insurance, water subsidies etc.
*EVERY* single rice farm in this region makes more money from leasing the ground to goose hunters after harvest.
The *ONLY* reason they keep growing rice is to create hunting habitat. I'm pretty sure the bottom line profit on hunting leases is 10× the rice crop.
Yes, my house sits on former rice ground. I grew up here when rice fields were only 5 miles away. The geese occasionally fly over in winter (it's all suburban sprawl now)
Don't try and tell us "BigAg" is profitable. What a joke.
@@willbass2869 Might be a subsidy/grant situation with this guy as well, as no business would spend 175k to buy a combine to harvest a tiny crop.
This size crop would be hand harvested.
Big scale rice production happens in California,
generally Japanese/Asian style rice,
not wild or american style/type of rice.
@@theboringchannel2027 True but with shock and thresher machines you could get your cost down to 20K. Maybe he has a plan of commercial harvesting as a side business. Sort of grow your own specialty market Show them How , rent my machine and services.
give him a break man. he's out there trying something new. if i had to guess, he's selling his rice to small independent local grocers. i'd pay a little extra to try it out
6000 lbs still feeds a lot of people and his crop seems a lot less destructive than say conventional corn.
.41$ sq ft
What kind of rice is it? Prefere Jasmin rice , is it possible with it ?
Do we really need all those plastic sheets..and What happens to all those plastic sheets later.
Yes, if you paid attention those sheets are used for weed prevention and water retention.
As for what to do with it when you're done... There's this hot new invention called 'The Trashcan'
@@jaynedoug9453 Sounds incredibly wasteful
For someone practicing organic and natural farming, I think they should avoid use of unnatural and non biodegradable materials. Secondly we should look for natural ways of weed prevention. Problem we try to achieve zero weed tolerance, what we need to understand is there would be some weeds alongside the main crop and that should be perfectly OK.
Marketing?
Why would it be a surprise? They raised it in colonial times
Video is so boosted by the algo that no matter how many times I select not interested and to not recommend it still keeps comming back to the frontpage. There's rice farms in WA, OR, ect doing similar but they won't get any media support because they're not melanin enhanced.
Hand planting that seems very dumb. Which is why its planted in flooded fields.
Theres a reason no one grows rice as a farm to table crop this way.
Nothing like encouragement to someone trying something different...FFS. 🙄🙄🤡🙄
Tell me how you're growing your rice.
I’d love to meet his Jewish sponsor
😂😂😂
he is the Hebrew.
The plastic is not sustainable.
with that hair and beard, this dudes begging for a farm accident. Rain on the scarecrow....blood on the plow.
Too much plastic... maybe it it was bioavailable plastic. Not just biodegradable, but available for bacteria to consume it and return the chemicals to the environment to be used in a non-toxic, natural way
You want plastic or herbicide/insecticide then...? 🙄🙄🙄
Exactly! Smaller Farmers tend to use plastic while the big time farmers use chemical warfare.
Those are the only 2 viable options as if yet.
Black rice 1.08oz ×16(aka 1 lb 17.28 lb ×6,500 per acre..
112,320 ÷43560
2.5785123967 sq ft
0.0177838577 sqin