Montna Farms

2015 Women Who Mean Business

Sacramento Business Journal. – June 19, 2015, Cheryl Sarfaty, Correspondent  –  Photo by Dennis McCoy      

Third-generation rice farmer Nicole Montna Van Vleck didn’t have to look far to discover where she could make the biggest difference in her life’s work.  It just took some time to get there.

See her full profile here:Women Who Mean Business – Nicole Montna Van Vleck

California rice farmers find Japanese trade negotiators a bit starchy

LA Times Article Written by: Don Lee June 11, 2015

For years Charley Mathews Jr. has exported tons of his best Sacramento Valley-grown rice to Japan, but it grates on him that very little of that has ever ended up on the tables of sushi restaurants or Japanese households.
To read the full article click here:http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rice-trade-20150611-story.html