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Early
Golden Stalk |
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White
Rice stalk about to be harvested |
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Early
moring, white rice stalk |
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Lundberg
kills the weeds by drowning the grass
during the 1st phase. |
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In
the second phase, they dry up the f ields
so the weeds die off and strong rice survives. |
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Bryce
Lundberg, family member and farmer. |
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Bryce
Lundberg, inspecting the rice. |
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Bryce
Lundberg, checking the purity of rice. |
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Newly
sprouted rice seed plants. |
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Original
Lundberg Family Brothers |
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Wild
Rice is resplendent giant compared to other
rice. |
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Normal
Rice (left), Wild Rice (right) |
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Wild
rice can stand over 12 feet high. |
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Wild
Rice Stalk |
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Hot,
fresh rice cakes. |
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Quality
Control testing for purity. |
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They
(Lundberg Family) secure. breed and cultivate
their own seeds and varieties not only to ensure
their existence for generations to come, but
in order to insure the purity of the line. |
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“Seed
operations often have purity as their goal,
but what is unusual here is that a crop producing
farm would have acreage set aside to create
their own seeds. It's because we produce so
many varieties that are not grown commercially
in California or anywhere, that we need to maintain
these varieites for the future. These small
plots maintain these purities. |
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