BRANCH, La. (KLFY) -- A local farm using its own rice to make whiskey and vodka was featured on "Farms of America" on the Cowboy Channel Monday night.

Frugé Aquafarms is a full service seafood company covering major markets in Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma, which began when Mike and Mark Frugé first started crawfish farming to make money in college.

"We made a little, small 20-acre crawfish pond here on the family land," Mark said. "And then it just kind of started growing from there.

“We were just trying to survive. At that time, our local economy was devastated. The oil industry collapsed. My dad actually went broke. When I came home one night, my dad was watching television on a generator because the electricity had been turned off, and the house had been foreclosed. That's where we

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