It yields earlier and seeds more freely, so when they run the harvesting process, all of the weedy rice hits the ground, which reduces the total yield per acre

It yields earlier and seeds more freely, so when they run the harvesting process, all of the weedy rice hits the ground, which reduces the total yield per acre by whatever % weedy rice is in that field. So if weedy rice eats up 5% of the field then at minimum that’s 5% of the field lost, before the mixed-harvest problems. It has a harder composition, so that the force used to turn it into white rice is damaging to most other kinds; and if processed as brown rice, will have a longer cooking time than the planted crop it’s mixed with, leading to uneven cooked results. Like mixing two pastas with two different cooking times into the same pot. “There are a number of ways that weedy rice can impact rice production:”: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22932 https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=2293...