Ag Alert, May 4, 2016, Jessica Campbell – California Farm Bureau Federation
Sacramento valley rice farmer Jon Munger explains how changes to federal flood insurance makes managing and expanding farming operations difficult.
Read the full article here:Farmers describe implications of flood rules
John Deere Magazine – The Furrow – February 2016 Special ‘Why We Care’ Edition
By Nicole Montna Van Vleck as told to Steve Werblow
Regardless of whether I’m in the office seeing them from my window or sitting in a duck blind watching them fly in, the huge flocks of birds that are migrating through the Sacramento Valley of California are an amazing sight. Read the full article here: The Furrow
By: John Hannon, California Rice Commission – RiceNews, YouTube
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California Rice Commission – RiceNews, YouTube
The drought has severely limited wildlife habitat in rice fields. This montage of clips were taken today at Montna Farms in Sutter County. A few inches of water were added to fields in the BirdReturns Program, providing critical habitat to a wide array of birds. BirdReturns is a collaborative effort of The Nature Conservancy and California Rice Commission.
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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
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
