A few years ago, Ronnie and Tracy Pigue decided their marginal
ground needed something other than row crops. Aquaculture is a
thriving industry around Paragould, Ark., but Ronnie wasn't keen
on catfish and focused on crawfish.  Standing beside a series of
1- to 1.5-acre ponds, Ronnie says the dirt they were carved from
is “totally marginal. This is exactly where the ground sunk
during the 1812 earthquake. Stand here and look east; that's
where all the cotton is. From here west to the Ozark Mountains,
it's mostly rice. I grew up on this fault-line — our house was
200 yards across that field.”  In transforming their operation,
the couple set out to do two things. First, was to take the 400
acres they own and make them completely self-sufficient. Second,
they wanted to produce something to sell directly to retail
consumers.  “We started talking about it four years ago,” says
Ronnie. “Three years ago, we brooded our first crawfish farm.
Two years ago, we had our first harvest. We're in our second
prawn harvest no