Livestock graze on just lately harvested paddocks and eat a few of the rice stubble. Some stubble is baled and faraway from the paddock as rice straw. The straw is used for feed, livestock bedding, roof thatching, mats, garments, packing material, and broomstraws. Rice is also cultivated in parts of Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Rice can be cultivated in parts of Europe, in North and South America, and in Australia.