What is the level of mechanization in these United States?

and what species of rice are they growing ????

What is the level of mechanization in these United States?

BIG TIME PRODUCTION !!!!!!

I will have to take some pics from planting , growing ( there is this stage where the little green plants are SOOOOO GREEN!!! ) , to growth and harvesting , and I may be able to get some processand packaging shots, lots of cool new stuff farm wise ,
Just this year they finnaly came out with cotton harvesters that spit out wraped modules ( picked and wraped in a neat bundle for pick up )

It appears that I've made a mistake in the descriptions of the photos.

You are correct Zip that those small plants are being planted. The following series shows the harvested plants, very long and brown.

You will also see the machine that collects the rice from the chaff as well.

This is the machine that the carabao pulls around during the harvest season. :)

There isnt much that I truly know about this thing. Those things that I do know are one, that people all day are putting the rough rice into it. The second thing is that there is a carabao that pulls it from one place to another which I personally think is very funny.

New tech teams up with old tech. :D

These are the rice buds that you need to whack off the stalk.

Second shot is one of the many people bringing piles to the machine.

No, I don't know what is in the pitcher Zip, it's probably not gin though.

Two of the many bringing the rice. They didnt seem overly friendly and I didnt want to do their job instead of them so I didnt get totally in their face with the pics.

It's difficult to see but the white elipse shows the rice being thrown into the air on the other side of the machine.

Absolutely fascinating, yes I know. :D

All done? Take the machine down the road for their rice too.

This was taken out of the car window as we were pulling out. How I wish I'd have gotten out to take a few more.

This is hilarious. (IMO) :lol:

Now that all the work is done you need to clean up by setting fire to the still green stalks of rice and other questionable burnable crap.

Thanks for taking the time to create enough nasty smoke to drift into our homes, ya jackasses. :mad:

Here's something a little different.

This is in Baguio. It rains nearly every day in Baguio as it's high in the mountains.

This mini sheild/roof might help a little in keeping the rain off but you'd still get very wet IMO.

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Food Court rural Philippines.

It's amazingly cool here despite having cooking in process at all the diners.

Fried chicken and spaghetti with a half litre Coke. If you don't actually see how the meats are prepared you might actually enjoy eating them. :D

Seriously, there's just a few things that I don't eat here now.