They Mocked Her Flooded Rice Paddy — Until It Became the Last Wetland the Ducks Could Find
Nadine Cross flooded her Arkansas rice fields every winter the way her grandfather had since 1978, using a tailwater recovery system that recycled irrigation water instead of pumping fresh groundwater, while neighbors mocked her "duck pond" and drained their own fields dry each November. In 2022, a severe drought pushed the region's aquifer to critical lows and dried two major wildlife management areas to mud, forcing most farms to stop winter flooding entirely. Nadine's four hundred acres became one of the only flooded wetlands left in the county, drawing over eighteen thousand ducks and validating four decades of her family's water conservation. If You Like this Video please Subscribe To our Channel.
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