 I'm Mike Freeze. I'm a fish farmer and having to be vice-president of Arkansas Farm Bureau, but you know most people think when you talk about rain that rain doesn't really have an impact on fish farmers This is probably the greatest impact that this flood of this year has had on us is this is our bridge And I know you're gonna have to take my word out for it because you can't see it And this is the the deepest we've ever had water over this bridge And we've got baby fish on the other side of this bridge that we need to be taking care of and feeding It's kind of like if you're in the cattle industry and your cattle are stranded our fish are stranded on the The other side of the Indian bio and we can't get to it what a lot of people don't realize is that rain water is actually very bad for for the hatching and Fish eggs and for baby fish because you know rain water is basically the still water If you take any fish and put it into still water you're gonna kill it Luckily, we're kind of in between stalking of our two major crops or hybrid strap bass and our grass carp So we're not stalking any baby fish right now, but with as much rainfall as we've had some of our ponds We're worried how that's gonna affect the chemistry in the ponds It's gonna have an impact on the baby fish and their food supply as long as our outside levees don't over top We're pretty safe now. There are some fish farms. Unfortunately, and even the USDA ARS research station down at our Mara Their ponds have gone under and when that happens It's really a catastrophe because you have water from the bow or ditch that Overtops all your ponds when now all of your fish are co-mingling wild fish are coming in and your fish are swimming out And it's really just creates a horrible mess because you don't know what you got in the pond So you've got to try to harvest them salvage what you can and even when you can salvage it They're contaminated with wild fish and you've got disease issues, etc So it's almost better to start over from scratch the farmers. I've talked to some of them I mean it varies from from everything you've got a wheat farmer It was about to harvest his winter wheat crop and now there's the wheat is sprouting and you can't even you know He can't get into it because you know, it may be a couple inches of water in the field Or you've got you know The farmers that haven't been able to plant a large part of their crop because all the rain we've we've had and then those that Did have it have it planted sometimes, you know, they may have soybeans three or four inches tall and they're under water They know they're gonna lose them You know mother nature tends sometimes Not to be as kind as we wish you she was to farmers and this is one of those instances when you get this much rain