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Question for crawfish farming experts
Posted on 2/26/25 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 2/26/25 at 6:31 pm
I was on the road today in and about Mamou, Bunkie, Cheneyville etc. I saw numerous ponds still dry now and next door full of water with traps. Is there some rotation system or bringing them up in phases? I would have thought they would all be full now and the season wide open.
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Posted on 2/26/25 at 8:49 pm to foj1981
I believe crawfish are typically rotated with rice.
Like, they’ll grow rice this summer, then flood all winter and catch crawfish next spring/summer.
Not a crawfish farming expert, just a regular row crop farmer.
Like, they’ll grow rice this summer, then flood all winter and catch crawfish next spring/summer.
Not a crawfish farming expert, just a regular row crop farmer.
Posted on 2/27/25 at 12:23 am to foj1981
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Is there some rotation system or bringing them up in phases?
That is correct, pages 11 & 12 Louisiana Crawfish Production Manual . Those fields that you observe dry now, will be planted with rice in late March-early April for grain harvest in July-Aug, likely followed by crawfish production in the same fields from Sept-Oct through April-Jun. Usually 1/4 & 1/3 of the fields used in rice-crawfish rotational cropping systems will be dry at this time in preparation for “early” rice cultivation.
Additionally, not all rice farmers who also cultivate crawfish use all their fields for crawfish cultivation as the crawfish component of the rice-crawfish operation is much more labor intensive (60-120 days of crawfish harvest).
Posted on 2/27/25 at 5:35 am to foj1981
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I would have thought they would all be full now and the season wide open
That's all for optics so they can keep the prices up, it's a drought year.
Posted on 2/27/25 at 1:55 pm to foj1981
The dry fields will be planted in rice next month and crawfished next spring
the ponds being fished now will be in rice next spring
the ponds being fished now will be in rice next spring
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