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Article Excerpt
NAPANEE -- Since his teen years, Steve Prather can hardly recall a day during duck hunting season that he wasn't out in the field.
"If we weren't hunting, we were hunting a place to hunt the next day," joked Prather, owner of Mississippi Delta Hunts in Napanee.
Prather's father was a rice farmer in Crowley, La., who moved the family to the Mississippi Delta in 1963, when Pratber was in the seventh grade. Prather began farming on his own in North Louisiana, not far from the Arkansas border, while his brother farmed on the home place in Mississippi. "So for several years, I was hunting almost daily in Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana," he said.
Several years ago, Prather returned to Mississippi to farm rice and soybeans on 1,600 acres of land in Napanee, a tiny community located five miles north of Leland....
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