Growers from around the state are gearing up for the annual California Rice Field Day in Biggs to see the latest research and findings regarding the commodity. Scheduled for 8:30 a.m.-noon Aug. 31 ...

What's new at this year's Sacramento Valley Snow Goose Festival Which birding field trips and hikes are closest to Shasta County Why ... northern California's rice fields. About 230 wetland ...

Glenn County agriculture is the area's leading industry. With rice, almonds and walnuts leading the way, Glenn County's $792.4 million agriculture industry increased its gross value by 14 percent ...

In the fall, rice fields in the ... board president of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, didn’t plant a single acre. Many other farms went idle as well. California has just gone through ...

The California Farm Bureau’s ... Meanwhile, Perry is a fourth-generation rice farmer and trucking company owner who serves on ...

The cycle of rice ... grown in California, including about 100,000 acres in Butte County. In 2011, growers produced $141 million in rice in Butte County, and a similar amount in Glenn County.

It looked like a promising clean-tech investment for California — a revolutionary Sacramento Valley plant that would turn rice straw into ... the plant in the Glenn County town of Willows ...