Bryce Lundberg can’t sleep. He’s been thinking about one thing all summer: rice. Okay, and maybe turkey feathers. Here’s why 👇 In our Regenerative Organic Certified® fields, we drown and dry up weeds instead of dousing our fields with chemical herbicides. Just after planting, we raise the water level *just* high enough to drown the grass weeds, but not so high that it harms the rice. This requires careful and, sometimes, near-constant observation as rice can only survive under water for about 48 hours longer than grass weeds. That’s our window to make sure the rice survives while the grass weeds drown. But here’s the thing: Aquatic weeds LOVE water. So, once the grass weeds drown, it’s time to switch it up like Nintendo. 🎮 Dry up is a system Bryce’s dad and uncles discovered as they prepared to give up on a field that had been overrun with aquatic weeds. “Let’s see how long we can let the rice dry up,” they said. They returned the water to rivers and streams and watched as t...