The Jasmine rice that Batty raises will be planted in May. The regular white rice is being harvested now. I went to Toon and Chai's place this morning and watched the harvest.
The field ready for harvest.
The rice heads.
The stems are green but the rice is ready for harvest.
Getting some of the weed heads out of the rice.
Reminds me of the wheat and the tares in the Bible.
Drying mats ready for the harvested rice.
The Kubota combine has arrived.
Coming across the field like the big ones at home.
This machine moves across the field on rubber much
as a catipillar has the metal treads.
Sacks are hung on the side and a man changes them
when they get full. There is a small hopper for the
rice to go into when sacks are being changed.
Sacks and platform were full so the bags were brought
to the end of the field, tied shut with bamboo and left
to be picked up and taken to the drying mats.
Loading the full sacks onto the cart.
Rice on the mat to dry one bag.
It will be here about 2 days, sacked again. The farmer
keeps some and the rest goes to market.
What the farmer keeps for eating is taken to a place and
the hulls are removed.
The harvest spread all over the front yard of the
house where I sleep. It was only left one day as
the forecast was for rain, none came.
There is no due here so all stays dry over night.
Bails of rice straw are staked and the the straw over the top.
This keeps the bails dry when it rains.
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