For Texas rice farmers determined to hang onto their land, crawfish offer clear benefits. Omnivores and swamp creatures at heart, mudbugs thrive in the low, warm, plant-filled waters of rice paddies.
Once responsible for the vast majority of the crawfish that came to market, basin crawfishers now are more of a wild card, as crawfish raised on flooded rice and soybean farms now make up more than 80 ...