Why don't Americans grow rice in their country?

>>71788490

Because rice is for Africa AID and other Poor peoples.

>>71788490
Rice is shit

Can't make high fructose rice syrup out of rice.

>>71788490
Most of the country isn't fit for rice. They do have shitloads of corn though.

>>71788518
and japanese

>>71788588
They have the state of Louisiana

>>71788490
we do

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calrose_rice

we make 9 million metric tons of rice a year
a little behind brazil whose main staple is rice

Fun fact:
My state, Missouri, is the leading producer of rice and meth in the US.

We make so much of it that we export some to the Chinese.
I think it's retarded for California to grow it though.

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We used to grow a lot. Now we don't grow as much, but we still make up something like 10% of rice exported in the world.
It doesn't grow as well in the North, and in the South, most states just moved on to less labor intensive and (I think) more profitable, e.g. in Georgia we grow tons of cotton and peanuts.

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>>71788700
>If a work could be imagined peculiarly unwholesome and even fatal to health, it must be that of standing like the negroes, ankle and mid-leg deep in water which floats an ouzy mud, and exposed all the while to a burning sun which makes the air they breathe hotter than the human blood; these poor wretches are then in a furness of stinking putrid effluvia.

WTF???

We do. Lousiana's oldest harvest festival is about rice.

Why don't other North Americans grow rice?

>>71788723
What the fuck are you talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_production_in_the_United_States

They do, I have some "Korean" rice which is grown in the USA.
Same variety the Koreans eat, presumably for the Korean-Americans.
Regardless, it's the best rice I've ever eaten.

>>71788723
WTF???

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>>71788652
What the fuck is this

>>71788567
High fructose rice syrup, shh, don't tell anyone, it's super secret

>>71788723
rice grown here is not like rice grown in asia
hence asians here never buy domestic rice

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>>71788823
its finland

>>71788823
a state in the shape of a cat

>>71788823
the city is name for the river which flows from the left joining the missouri at kansas city

>>71788823
We had land to explore and settle, not land showed by a bunch of different ethnic people's like in Europe.

It's like that all over North America

>>71789018
missouri being a river too

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>>71789314
I-I don't g-get it...

>>71789364
australians were making fun of the fact that kansas city was in missouri

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>>71789189
Why does it exist
What happens there
Why is meth so popular there

>>71788490
Why rice when you can have corn?

>>71790092
St. Louis
St. Louis and Meth
Because there's nothing else for them to do.

>>71790145
Because corn is fucking garbage