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- Louisiana produces 90% of the United States crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. There, the industry is fairly new. In the 1980s, rice farmers experimented with cultivating crawfish in their fields. And it paid off. Today, business is booming, clearing the way for the next generation of farmers like Madison McIntyre. But the industry is also unregulated and fast-moving, trapping producers in an endless fight to keep crawfish alive.
0:00 Intro
1:21 How crawfish are farmed from rice fields
4:26 How crawfish are processed
8:30 The history of crawfish in Louisiana
9:23 How to prepare a Cajun crawfish boil
10:34 The future of Louisiana’s farmed crawfish industry
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How A Louisiana Crawfish Company Harvests 60,000 pounds a day | Big Business | Insider Business
This is the most sustainable seafood I have ever heard of. Dense polyculture totally suited to the environment, no trawling style destruction of wild habitats, and he *gives his foreign workers visas, houses, them, and pays them double the local minimum wage.* To hell with shrimp harvested by slave labour, I'm buying this guy's frozen crawfish forever.
All seafood is sustainable
@@samsonsoturian6013 unfortunately, that's very untrue. Other videos on this very channel cover the tragedy to the environment and to humanity the majority of seafood is. If you haven't seen them yet, I'd be happy to link you to a few individual ones. There's a lot of other sources as well, but if you even browse around this same channel you'll find the horrific truth.
It's not seafood, it's freahwater
If only you knew how destructive the louisiana crawfish is around the world. Sustainable in one place, destructive as far as asia.
@@dreamslovesoul rice industry is super huge in Asia. I don't understand why they don't synergize with crawfish farming like this people in the video did?
The owner is really down to earth, very humble and honest. Wish him and his crew the best of luck.
No shit, this guy is going to become a bilionaire.
Crawfish lives matter
Humble to whom? His "15-to-18 hour days" workers who are apparently paid peanuts? That black peeler lady was paid 2.50 a pound for peeled crawfish. She can do 40 pounds on a good day. This man is a modern day slave driver.
@@TettyBoyFloydyup jobs to foreigners then Americans. God bless America.
@@td6460 He's paying them 14.50 an hour now.
Whoever came up with the idea of farming crawfish and rice deserves an award.
It was me, i came up with the idea. I'll take awards in the form of cash payments
@@kovaci0000007 I'd rather pay the nigerian Prince
@@valentinedpg I am that Nigerian Prince. Do you want to do cash or cheque? i also accept credit card
@@kovaci0000007 the real would at least ask for my email address and social security. Away! You go, faker.
@valentinedpg Sorry my assistant must have missed it, Can I please have your email address and phone number?
Of all the amazing things to say about Madison, I really appreciate his commitment to redundancies that insure if things go wrong, it isn't a catastrophic. One of the biggest problems in the economy is how fragile our businesses and supply chains are because of kids at consulting firms using Excel to cut companies to the barest of bones, which is why nothing is ever able to consistently deliver.
The MBA class has really been devasting to the Western World and now we are paying for their sins.
Thank you for the kind words!
@@madisonmcintyre1790 Of course! Thank you for participating in this piece. As an office drone in his 20s who dreams of starting an agricultural/food business, I love these types of videos.
Not sure how this stuff works, but your business reminds me of what gets featured in Eater's "Vendors" series. Hope to hear more about your successes in the future, all the best.
Never give up brother!
It's one of the things I despise the most about the profit seeking ultra capitalist economy we are in. Companies are afraid to spend a few cents more to bring up the quality of life at the workplace it's insane. It's not even just paying a bit more but improving the tools or accessibility of stuff at the workplace. Last job was using an electrical pallet jack that was basically on life support and would randomly jam up. The amount of time it burns out couldn't possibly equate to the cost of just getting a new one.
It’s amazing to think 2 renewable resources can be harvested on one field
What's better is that those two resources complement each other as the video states. Crawdads seem like the rice farmer equivalent of the wheat farmer's worms. Except it's tasty.
Yes but still cruel, I’m pro renewable stuff but it’s cruel to them:/
...at the same time. Also, this gives them an opportunity to help nature as always some of the crabs will escape and form an ecosystem on its own.
@@sharpshooter2398 can you point out what is cruel cuz I don't see anything cruel.
@@BlackReaps this is clearly a non smart person. don't discuss further
In Vietnam, crawfish is banned from being imported since 2013 after scientists labeled it a invasive and harmful species to agriculture. Despite the ban, the import and distribution of crawfish have continued unchecked because they have become a favored delicacy among the Vietnamese food lovers, especially young people.
My MIL loooooooves crawfish-- she can throw DOWN at the buffet. She's Vietnamese. 🙂
Thanks, learned something new
Okay great.
Because in rice fields in Vietnam, they farm rice eels and betta fish. 😂 Rice eels cost more and more profitable.
@@abovewater99 Yeah, a Cajun palette might have to get used to the idea first.
Madison is very humble and down to earth. I like how he puts skin in the game and doesn’t even take much money out for his salary. That’s a true business owner managing everything well even with the hurdles. 👌🏽
Thank you for the kind words!
Then they make it sound like he wasn’t taking much salary bc he was paying his employees “almost double minimum wage at $14/hr” but what they don’t correlate is the earlier comment that Madison was reinvesting it into the company and that related to the earlier discretion that they were building an entire new facility. I think what Madison is doing is outstanding, so please don’t try and make this be about me criticizing him whatsoever. What I am trying to point out is that all the idiots who are racist bigots that scream about the border need to have a look at reality.
Oh, and guess what-the only number of immigrants deported that Trump increased during his 4 years in office were LEGAL ones. Think about that.
@@timcarter817 And your point for bringing up illegal immigrants at the border and Trump is?…
@@NeonKue I answered that pretty clearly, magamuffin
@NeonKue if true, then an argument can be made that Trump pretends to keep immigrants away when in reality they need illegal immigrants to make these kinds of businesses to thrive
From Louisiana. Crawfish season is the best time of year. We have crawfish boils and people buy like 30-80 pounds, if not more. You’d be surprised how many pounds your family will eat haha. I have such fond memories with crawfish. It’s a privilege to be able to enjoy such a sustainably sourced food !
Exactly. Nothing better than spring
Madison is the true definition of "Started from the bottom, now we're here." What an entrepreneur! Congrats!
imagine if his daddy was rich, the dude would have millions.
@@chadbooga8698 someones tense
I love a good rags to riches story and this guy seems like he is doing it the right way, however he "stared" with a 30k refrigerated truck and a plug on crawfish and a solid business partner that believed in and likely financially backed his vision. That said I love when yhe Anerican dream actually happens.
They made a mistake, they said the company is more than 50 years, the older black woman was saying she was working there as a girl with her mama , so I doubt Madison is the founder
Sold my 2009 Toyota Corolla for 4500, bought the 1994 f350 for 4500 even trade lol. It had no a/c and no radio. But I loved it and it got the job done!
*So glad to see they’ve gotten a process down to make sustainable farming. Best part is crawfish are available year round now!*
@UltraMAGA420 its illegal?
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 even you step at bacteria and killed them everyday dude. so whats your point?
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 who cares, thats part of life since eons ago. 'progressive modern thinking' is a myth
@@TheDogGoesWoof69they don’t have feelings
Crawfish are not year round
I am so proud of this young man. He never use the word "I". It was always "we". I hope you continue to do well.
As one of less than 10 guys named Madison in the United States it makes me proud to see he’s kept his name. I struggled growing up in school because kids always picked on me for having a “girl name”. Great job Madison! Keep expanding the business
Less than 10 in the US? what?
@@IhaveaDoghouseOP seems to think there are only 10 men left in the United States with the name Madison? He is absolutely mistaken if That's the case there has to be at least thousands of living male Madison's right now, If not more.
Madison is such a stand up dude. A true entrepreneur. Hats off to you mate.
G ugh u) 😊99😊
Thank you for the kind words!
A true entrepreneur? Nah, just a capitalist who's living off of the hard work of the workers.
@@TheAxeaman why didnt those workers just start their own crawfish company? Could It maybe be because that capitalist brings something to the table that the workers dont have on their own? I don't know about you, but I would think it would be unethical to not compensate someone for the value they bring
@@greg-fh4sl Exactly, the capitalist has capital, it’s in the name. That’s why the workers can’t just start their own business. If they by some luck can start their own business, they’re still gonna be successful due to the workers.
I agree but not compensating for the value they bring is the whole mentality of capitalism. If people were compensated for their labor, the whole system would collapse.
In Sweden they are very popular in August-September. We cook them completely differently. Its with lots of dill, salt, some beer and a pinch of sugar. They are normally eaten cold with beer, vodka and some cheese, butter and toast on the side. We also eat part of the head and the claws.
Same in Ukraine, we cook them with dill, black pepper and laurel leaves and it is the classic beer snack here.
Hmmmm so interesting. I'd like to try them this way with dill and black pepper. If you visit Louisiana or Houston, you have to have them Creole style, baby. Your life won't be the same. 😋
So glad you don't waste the claws
I remember eating those while on holiday in Bohuslän back in the 90ies :)
These days - the North American kind being an invasive species - they are commercialy caught by the tonne in the Berlin Tiergarten ponds and lakes and have become a new local delicacy.
@@wisegoddess8224I'm Norwegian and I've had them in Louisiana. Still prefer the Nordic style
When he says"....I think the magic happens IN the ice chest..." you can hear and feel it's not "just a job" to him. He believes-in and has genuine passion-for what "Charlie Johnson does" (3rd person) with a clam and unshakable commitment to QUALITY. SO cool!
"You can't find local or American labor that will work as hard as these guys do side by side with us" 11:27 Well said Madison! People from other countries don't steal jobs, American workers simply don't want to do them.
The calling card of any populist/racist is just blaming foreign labor when they themselves wouldn't have done it anyway. No surprises there, the mask has been off a loooong time for that boat.
And he’s paying 2x minimum wage.
Thats what happens when you have a welfare state. Why work hard when you can live off the government?
@@timothyjstrongwelfare turned into workfare..thank you President Bush
i have been an immigrant myself in italy, me and my immigrant friends are earning very good money and could find work easely but the young from the country always complained how hard it was to find a job and how little the job paid. the reason was simple, they were looking for office jobs, we immigrants were in al the jobs that were less clean, but those jobs paid well, almost twice as much. I'm a plumber and earn very good money, far better than anybody with office jobs yet they look down at me as somebody who has to deal with literal shit wich is true a few times a year but i make money they can't even imagine
The Louisiana Crawfish company seem to adapt quite quickly to standardized practices within the workplace. Their work ethics are well displayed in this context.
I've seen a ton of their CZcams shorts, and really made me want to order some from their website.
Is this the name of his frozen business? I could only figure out the name of his restaurant from the shirt he was wearing.
@@awibs57this isn’t Louisiana Crawfish Company this is Parish Seafood Wholesale
lel
Pay them well, and work just as hard. Bro be creating jobs for people willing to put in the hours, and himself willing to throw himself at the business full force. Mad respect.
If hey paid them well it wouldn't mostly be people working on Visa's lol...
Yeah, just under 14 dollars working 15 hour days not seeing your family, that’s a ripoff
That lady pealer makes 100 a day for who knows how many hrs. Not great pay
@@enginerunsable those people are mainly from Africa where they might work the same amount of hours in a more hazardous environment for maybe less than $2-3/day? And he also pay for housing and transportation for his staffs so yea even though I don't defend his company's policy but $14/hr is way better than what they can earn in their home country.
I'm sure they're paid cash under the table lol 😅
I actually had a crayfish as a pet once. Towards the end of the year in fifth grade my school paired us off and gave each pair a crayfish to care for, at the end of the year one of each pair got to take their crayfish home and I got lucky. He’s was actually a really incredible little guy and watching him molt and become bigger and bigger was quite the experience. I still have a few of his molts persevered (I honestly can’t believe how well they’ve held up for more than two decades!). He was surprisingly interested in interacting with me and was super curious, I’m really grateful that I got to have that experience with him.
So I love them and I don’t eat them but It’s really good to see that they’re being farmed in a sustainable way without a bunch of waste. The way the workers are being taken care of is superb and it’s one of the more sustainable systems out there.
Wow, your novel was intriguing
My dad owns a crawfish cage company here in Idaho. I work there as well, it is a lot of work but it really is an amazing source of food for people!
Y’all make the cages and send em down to Louisiana? 🍻
Proud of my French-Cajun ancestors. Louisiana is my heart and my dream home. There is nothing compared to Cajun cooking and I mean nothing
I’m from New Iberia, Jamaican food is right up there.
I lived in Nova Scotia where the Acadians that hid from the British remained, the ones that were evicted went to Louisiana. Acadians are the friendliest people I’ve ever met
But there's no cajun cooking, only them adapting to the environment around them. To give the cajuns credit for something they didn't do is ridiculous and propaganda talk.
@@roybabineaux5353 You could say that about everyone: That they only adapted to the environment around them. People cook with what's available to them. Can't believe you thought you made a profound statement with that comment.
@@roybabineaux5353tf? What an absurd, idiotic statement.
Thw fact that madison is still in his early 30s and have already founded a company that helps 60 people...hats off man
Having employees work 15 hour days 6 days a week is helping? Lol
@@jeffk3746they have only a limited amount of jobs in louisiana bro
thanks for your kind words, our employees are like family to us, we pay them as much as we can and they all get bonuses at the end of the season. many of them we have even helped with family medical bills in their foreign countries, we also have helped a few purchase vehicles and co-signed on loans for them to help them get off their feet. what is important to me in life now is helping those that are less fortunate. i hope that others see the way we treat our neighbors and one day help someone else in need with the thought of getting nothing in return.
We swedes, who eat a lot of crawfish as a tradition, thank you kindly for what you do! Just bought some frozen Louisiana ones a couple of weeks ago.
Do you know if they do this in Norway as well? My family grew up just outside of New Orleans, and my brother now lives in Norway, but it doesn't seem like they have such a fondness of crawfish there in Stavanger.
Good on Madison for taking care of is employees, recognizing that they're hard workers and a valuable part of his company / operations.
But also let's recognize that his business would not be sustainable if he wasn't using foreign workers on VISAs and that a lot of the money they're making isn't staying in the country.
It was nice to see they were comfortable enough to admit on camera that they munch the fresh cooked crawfish every now and again. Means they don’t have a culture of fear there.
@@RickR69 do you think they take it back to Mexico and just hide it?
But also let’s recognize that-even as stated in the video-American workers do not work as hard nor would work the 15+ hr days. Being in a rural agricultural area myself, anecdotally, you can’t keep American workers in the field for more than a couple days, let alone an entire season. It’s very hard and demanding labor with poor pay and long hours. Sure you could automate and/or pay more, but then foodstuffs would skyrocket and it would cascade. People already complain about grocery prices now. Also where I live, $14-15/hr is a pretty good pay. Most agricultural workers make minimum wage or less here
I love synergistic cycles like this
@insidermusklmao scam
It's called farming
I know it's so awesome right 😃
I love the panicked little turtle trying to escape all the crawfish lmao
Now that right there in my eyes is the American Dream, built his company from the ground up with blood, sweat, tears and hard work. Don’t know you personally man but Dam Good Job! Proud of you!
And illegal immigrants
@@jrh8302exactly, it’s easy to get workers that will work 15 hours a day 7 days a week when they have zero protection from labour laws because they’re undocumented. That’s why Americans won’t take these jobs.
@@jrh8302cry more
His "American Dream" is yielding him less profit than if he pushed carts at Walmart... He must have one HELL of an exit strategy.
@@jrh8302 lmao, he did said they’re here via visa which is LEGAL and not free or a easy process.
It's nice to see a symbiotic relationship that can make good money, feed people, and fertilize the land.
This is actually the first time I've heard about the US having a rice industry. Quite interesting the Southeastern region harvests it with the native crawfish
I mean, the USA’s name in Japanese is literally “rice country”
US is the 5th largest exporter of rice in the world. CA is second largest state and has some of the most sought after grains in the world.
On the north of Australia we have a rice industry but the ducks eat a ridiculous amount. But as a result we can easily get Australian grown rice.
Cajun (French swamp people of Louisiana) and Lowcountry (coast of South Carolina and Georgia, has an English creole people called Gullahs) have a diet based around rice.
Elsewhere in the South it's more about corn.
Yes we also have a type of rice native to American as well
I saw other people doing this same thing in some other countries, it is brilliant! The first time I had the crawfish was in Louisiana about 40 years ago, and cooked the Cajun way, they are fabulous! They had big festivals over these yummy creatures. I am so glad this business is working and helping people increase profits while not harming the environment.
Damn, I didn't realize Crawfish started to take off like this, explains how so many crawfish boils started popping up near where I live, though, none of them beat a cajun crawfish boil.
I also never expected Cajuns to be mentioned in this video.
Oh and, as a Cajun, I'd HIGHLY suggest going to a crawfish boil, trying Etouffee if you haven't had it yet, and possibly a Seafood gumbo.
Social media makes everything reachable. Im not surprised about them mentioning the Cajuns, but I am surprised they didn't mention the history of Creoles.
This young man is incredible, he is a business genius. Wishing him continued success.
Great story, Insider Business! This young man has the right idea about how to treat his employees and his market! Good luck, Madison!
dude deserves to be rich, he treats everyone well.
thank you for the kind words, means a lot to me.
Do you really make your workers do 15 hour days 6 days a week?
She can peel 40 pounds a day and gets paid $2.50 a pound, so she gets paid around $100 a day. These workers need to be paid more.
This math aint mathing chief
@@keatonwilliams2276 what’s 40*2.5 chief
@@keatonwilliams2276 the math is right, can’t image doing this all day for $100
As a Louisiana resident I will always love crawfish, they are an amazing source of substance.
lol I laughed at 1:22 the crawfish is just like “friend!”
At some point in the 1980s, the same approach was attempted here in England. We have lots of trout farms (trout was a big crop in the 1980s) and it was thought that crayfish would be a second commercial crop from the same water.
So they introduced American Signal Crayfish (from NW USA I understand). And they escaped, obviously.
They are now a major invasive species that carry a virus that kills the local crayfish, and they burrow into the river banks causing $millions worth of damage.
Sadly the population never took to crayfish as a food source apart from high-end restaurants (but I have some traps for my own personal consumption). I've even done my own homage to Louisiana and made Crawfish étouffée which is completely unknown on this side of the pond.
The American Signal Crayfish is much larger than dem der Louisiana mudbugs, and the males can reach quite an impressive size here with large claws (no natural predators - not even the other invasive species, American Mink, are interested). For the invasive American species, there is only one natural predator, and this is the larger crayfish of the same species, because they are carnivorous.
Maybe a crawfish festival is what they need over in your neck of the woods! Teach people how to catch, cook, and of course FEED THEM somwthing delicious
They're not as tasty as the red swamp crawfish
A crawfish that eats other crawfish. Yuck. Humans will destroy any population edible.
@@wisegoddess8224 trout eat other trout silly
well we're the apex and every other animal is our food..so be it@@wisegoddess8224
The Crawfish that escaped @05:55,
"You wanna piece of me?! I came from the street you punk!"
When Madison first started I helped him build a makeshift cooler out of a shipping container and haven’t really heard much from him until I saw this video. I’m glad he’s doing well and kept expanding his business.
I love how one of the traps caught a red ear slider turtle and it was trying to "escape". 😂
So adorable. 2:30
5:27 These Crawfish were holding on for life 😂
I tried both American imported crawfish and Chinese farmed ones. If not overloaded with ingredients, you can totally distinguish the difference.
Chinese food is universally "enhanced"
I accidentally bought Chinese or Vietnames crayfish once & didn’t like them at all. But I’m from S. Louisiana
Northern crawfish from colder water taste alot better I'm from Wisconsin and our crawfish here is better I've tried them side by side alive and boiled same spices.
@@ballistic350 As a Nord i 100% agree, if You ever experience problems selling Crawfish in the US, You know there is always a market here and we pay a lot better. ;-)
@sheep1ewe crawfish from Norway Finland etc are similar to ours here northern Wisconsin. Greenish brown color and meat taste like butter so good
It’s also crazy seeing the mix of “foreign labor” in the mix of a southern small business. Everything about this video is chef’s kiss.
If you have never had a crawfish boil from Louisiana, you must. Truly amazing flavor and experience.
But if the corn has turned a red tint, be aware you won't be able to sit down after your next bathroom break!
That was super interesting I liked the young owners remarks it just happened organically .
thanks for the kind words, we had no intention of the company growing this big, goes to show you how hard work and never giving up will always pay off.
As a Mexican from Mexico living here in the USA I respect this guy and support him.
I lived in South Louisiana most of my life and let me tell ya .Nothing is better on the weekend after a long work week than a crawfish boil and ice cold beer,with all your family friends. I have many cousins who catch wild crawfish.Their is farms and spillway crawfish.I prefer spillway bc you are buying straight from the guy who caught it.Straight from the bayou that day.Every person’s way of boiling is different. But just between me and you . Mines the best.
This is amazing!
Love seeing this young dude working hard. He is making good business decisions. The best part of crawfish is playing finger puppets with the heads.
This guy is a humble dude .. love to see people come up from the bottom 💯
thank you for the kind words
I was born and raised in Louisiana but I live in Las Vegas now. I will be going home Friday 8/18/23 and God knows I can’t wait. 🤤🤤
Very good man. I wish you and your company continued success. A lot of people are depending on you.
thanks for the kind words means alot
About 100 a day, 500 a week and 2000 a month working in the crawfish peeling factory. That’s without deducting taxes. That’s crazy. I’ll stick to being a union carpenter lmaooo
be blessed some of those ladies don't have that option player
At that pay, she isn't likely paying Federal income taxes. SS and Medicare may still apply. It's still a tough gig, tho'! (Did she eat a crawfish tail or was she chewing gum -- hmmm...)
I wish them all well. They are all such hard workers!
Ms Leona 50 years woooow
Give this woman her flowers!!!
To Madison and all of you commercial crawfish farmers, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. You brighten up my day usually about once a week from about February to June in Houston, TX.
Seriously, Cajun-boiled crawfish is absolutely my favorite food. I thank God every time I eat a crawdad. I consider them "food from the gods". I'll dip them in melted butter and then add a little creole spice to them; they make my tongue think it died and went to heaven. Again, thank you.
Mark thanks for your kind words means a lot
@@madisonmcintyre1790 I have a brochure for touring a LA crawfish farm (just off of I-10). I plan on going there next year, and experiencing some of the fun you get to do on a daily basis.
Here's the definition of absolute insanity. I saw on YT that there's someplace overseas where the locals are "complaining" about crawfish there overrunning the place, being an "invasive species". All that means is that there isn't someone there smart like you.
Also, I don't know if it would be against the law, but I saw a YT where a guy in Thailand is raising crawdads from Australia which appear to be humongous. Also, he did some research about which foods (on sale at the end of the day at the fish market) crawdads like best. You may be interested in seeing that vid.
10:00 They about to start a war with this one. Where I live, which is just 20 minutes away from where this was filmed, everyone puts the seasoning into the water. It changes town by town.
Yeah every has their own way. With lobster it's best to through salt in the boiling water because the meat doesn't have that much flavor. I like lobster but I kinda think ppl use it as a vehicle for the sauce.
These guys must be north of i10. That's where they put the seasoning after the boil! Anyone below i10 knows this is how the Yankees boil their crawfish!😂😂😂😂
Glad you said this. I hate seasoning on the outside. We always put everything in the water. From New Iberia…
I have boiled quite a few sacks over the years and have always seasoned the boil water. I eat the meat, not the shells, so I am not sure what dusting the outside does.
@@cberge8 Welsh is on i10 about 20 minutes east of Lake Charles. So, I'm not sure what their excuse is for doing it that way.
Now that's good boss! Hard times hit the company he takes the blow so his employees don't have to and my man clearly respects his workers now that's a man id work for!
Really great expose. Learned so much!! Thank you!!!
I used to go peel crawfish after school when I was younger. Back in 92 I remembered it being about 4 to 5$ a pound. With all the competitions now I can understand why the workers only make 2.50 a pound.
that's terrible
I do not understand that. Wages should go up not down.
@@RandoHandle Back in '92, there weren't that many people peeling crawfish for a business for a living. They pay you by the Lbs. How much you make in one hour depends on how fast you can do it. My older brother was able to peel 2 lbs in one hour which is around 10$ an hour which is a lot of money back then.
Looking at these factory lines, the crawfish come across at truly robust creatures. High drops, tight packaging, water flushes...quite the treatment.
Yes, there is zero concern for their welfare as demonstrated by these animal abusers.
He's right. Few Americans will work 15hr+hrs and 7 days a week lol and the pay is 13$. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing.
5:57 "Hey, im walking here!"😂
He’s incredibly disciplined to take only $20K out of $500K each year. More amazing, the efforts of all those people only generate $500K a year and he’s already one of the more successful owners.
I doubt it. First paying your employees so also his own salary are costs for the company. Profit is revenue - costs, so it shouldn't be deduced of the final profit.
He "invests" 80% of the profit back and investing can be everything, even buying himself food on company expenses 😂
The other 20% that arent invested , so 100k are profit that automatically go to the company owner which is also him.
$20000... yeah, no dividends or directors loans or director benefits... Suuuuure
@@blablup1214 Even if he takes the entire profits of the company himself, without paying any employees, it’s still not much.
@@MichaelChengSanJose Didn't he say he founded the company 10 years ago ?
I think this amount of profit is already good
yeah i started it 10 years ago, got into wholesale on accident by buying too much crawfish one day and had to go door to door selling it to other restaurants or wholesalers, the next day i got a call saying they all wanted more, at that point i knew i had something that i could run with. the company did not turn a significant profit for the first 6 years, it has been a very long and tough journey. nothing in life comes free and no one will ever do it for you. there is no secret to success you just have to get out there and do it, we do not pay ourselves much because we believe in our company and want to see it succeed in the long run, our families and employees depend on us to stay in business and with that comes discipline and sacrifices. @@blablup1214
This is what its all about. Not get rich quick but work that you know and are good at and building up with your own two hands, dedication and a crew.
thanks for the kind words
Ordered some from LA all the way up in the North East and was blown away by how good they were. Ordered 5lbs and only had a handful that didn’t make the trip but that’s expected. Very excited to place another order
Knowing your environment your crawfish habitat and how to sustain a business without wiping out Mister Crawfish! Great job, great food too. .
It gave me psychic damage when she pronounced boudin as boe-dan
Go see a doctor to deal with your illness
Seems like a good, honest business. I wish him well and success. As a Canadian, I would love to take a trip down there and have a mudbug party. Seems like it would be fun.
Do it! You won't regret it. And, while you are down there, try some other Cajun food too, and some BBQ wood smoked! You will want to move down there! Have fun!
Come on down to our farm we would love to give you a tour and feed you at our restaurant!
I love the crawdads' "Come at me bro!" stance and attitude. I respect that. They do not go gentle into that good night.
Great story, we travel through quite often and it's quite the scene.
This guys shows what you can achieve when you work hard
thank you for the kind words
Damn if a company been doing this 20 years, you know they are good at what they do. The owner seems like a nice dude. He just said he gave 80% of his earning to his own company. Meaning he isnt greedy and knows that he’s where he’s at because of his company. Usually not alot of company owner does this. Some wont even give 10% of their earning into their business.
Thank you for the kind words! We have made many sacrifices to get where we are today! The key to business is staying in business!
This is awesome on a lot of levels 🙌
@5:30 there's a crawfish holding onto the sorting device for dear life lmao
love the videos! Keep up the great work!
I hope something sustainable like this is done with salmon and sardines, that's my go to food on a weekly basis.
Salmon is no problem farming, i Scandinavia most of the salmon are farmed in Norway or Sweden, if they just are farmed properly in a closed pond system with a natural bio filtering system made of natural plants and algae growth there are no problem of contamination of the sea, it will go back as fertiliser to the system or the sludge can be spread on farmland to grow food.
My fiancé is from Louisiana and he LOVES crawfish. I’m not too big on seafood but I’ll eat a few of them. He’s happy with me because of that, there’s more for him! 😂❤
When I was 3 to 4 years old, I lived in a place outside of Louisiana where crawfish swam in the paved street gutters and along the roads. The older kids taught me how to catch them and play with them. I don't think I ate any until I was in college. It's not my favorite, but it's always fun! They can be found quite far from southern Louisiana, by the way, but they don't generally get that large or numerous.
Very insightful video! and Mannnn I heard the cajun food in Louisiana is something special 😋. Also, I love seafood but never had crawfish. I'm wondering for those who had it am I missing out ? and where's the best of the best for seafood ? in the US or maybe abroad.
OMG YES!!! 🎉
From Michigan!
Honestly not much. Its like lobster but you have to work way harder for a single tiny bite of meat. Plus your fingers get kinda cut up from shelling them.
The communal atmosphere of a crawfish boil is really the only selling point imo.
Not in my opinion. I grew up in Tennessee and Crawdads were a common Independence Day food. I never developed a taste for them
Yes it is worth it but you must have it in Lousisiana at a Cajun restaurant for the full experience. Do not listen to the guy who says they're like lobster there is no comparison; Cajun crawdads are very spicy and delicious with the seasoning nothing like any other seafood you've ever had. You get a huge pile on your plate take em one at a time, break em in half eat the meat from the tail and then suck the juices from the head. This is the tastiest part! So you bite the meat, suck the juice, bite the meat, suck the juice, repeat repeat repeat. Little corn or taters on the side maybe (cooked in the same seasoning) Talk about GOOD EATIN brother you will love it
The meat is good in a soft taco.
Leona Williams has been doing the down and dirty labor work for 50 years. She is the heart of this business. She processes 40 lbs a day at 2.50/lb. If Leona works 5 days a week and never takes a holiday, she only makes $26,100 each year while her labor makes others millionaires. Leona can’t buy a house but her work buys others mansions.
Sorting the comments by new on videos like these is always pretty fun.
God Bless this farmer and his crew.✝️🙏🏽
Wow they get paid $2.50 per pound? That’s horrific
Joe bidens economy
Well a lb of frozen crawfish tails are sold for less than $10 so the worker is getting close to a 3rd of the total
I was slightly worried the second they said inflation had been hard on the business. But seems like he does pay everyone decently. Tbh, $14 is what the minimum wage should be, especially adjusted for inflation from 2009 when it was last set at $7.25. More employers should pay this amount. This guy is paying that and making contingency plans for every element of his business. Good o n him.
If you can't afford to pay your workers that sort of amount it just sounds like you shouldn't be an employer.
Problem is the US is too large and diverse just to slap a raise on the national minimum wage, 14$ in West Virginia is dang good, 14$ in California is not that great. Should be done by state which it is, there’s like 7-8 states that are still at the federal minimum wage. (Could be more but my point stands)
thank you for the kind words
Bless his heart. Love my LA family!
6:12 anyone else notice their pallet jack is called "lamborghini"? Lmao I love it
He said you can’t find Americans to work those jobs. It’s probably because you can get paid more working at McDonalds.
A bit more than McDonald's. More like a regional supermarket. But unless you can automate the process you can't change that
Up to a certain point. In Louisiana, McDs pays around $16 an hour and you're capped on hours. Assuming he actually pays overtime, those boys are bringing in over 1.5k more every 2 weeks compared to a McDs employee.
Whoever came up with the idea of farming crawfish and rice deserves an award
I NOW have GREAT RESPECT for the industry!... TY!
I love Cajun spiced crawfish!
Boiling alive is so so cruel.
BTW, no evidence of them not feeling any pain
there is sadly no other, fast way of killing them. I asume they dont suffer for long. Maybe 5 seconds max.
Vegan are pissed off 🤪🤪🤪🤪
@@Laufield ironic 🤣
@@Laufield why assume they’re vegan just for disliking these practices? I don’t think being Vegan should really take away from someone’s argument by itself, if someone’s argument is truly wrong then that should be proven by the flaws of the argument itself rather than the labels they fall under.
Seems this guy appreciates the hard work that his workers do. A good quality
thank you for the kind words
I get you gotta eat and i have no issue with harvesting and eating the little buggers, but boiling animals alive is just barbaric.
that looks soooooo good!!!
WOw, working since 13 after school and work sometimes until 1am in the morning. Gotta love cheap child labors.
Ugh, it kills me to know how much they are getting paid for the amount of work they do. I know to them is probably a lot but seeing how expensive being alive these days are I hope that’s more than enough for them 😢
I honestly was thinking the same thing. $2.50/lbs at 40 lbs/day is only $100 a day which is almost as good as $12.00/hr at 8 hrs/day. Mathematically they are the same but you're not guaranteed 40 lbs a day. And $12.00/hr is almost unlivable. I have nieces and nephews in highschool who make $15/hr albeit for 4 hrs/day, but still.
@@namegoeshere8458 Do they even get $12.00/hr ? It was said his employees work 15-18 hours a day and I thought this was also for the woman peeling 40 pounds a day :/
Hey, I’m the producer on this video. It didn’t make it in the video, but many of these workers
get $1-$3k bonuses at the end of the season.
Right... let's pay them a doctors wage for bagging a mini lobster shrimp.... smh
@@BuzzingGoober you're absolutely right. We shouldn't even pay them for something so easy.
Bet the heavy metal content of those crawfish is off the charts
From what lol
Almost all fish and shellfish hell sea/riverfood is rich af in heavy metals
@@markusmottus1686 Even tuna fish has mercury metal in them lol
Doubt it. Its usually fish that live several generations that build up heavy metals.
Crawfish have a short life cycle (1-2 years) so are not much prone to heavy metal accumulation.. It also depends on what they eat.. If the feed is not high on heavy metal, the crawfish won't be.. I'm also sure this is controled. And crawfish is not stapple food either, I mean not something you'd eat it every day for it's nutritional value but rather as a festive food that you'll eat every once in a while for it's specific look and taste.
I love crawfish season here in Louisiana.
Just some friendly advice to those who haven't had the pleasure of eating crawfish yet. Don't listen to anyone telling you the yellowish-orange stuff in the head is poop, it's closer to a fatty liver and the flavor is amazing. To be honest, even if it was...