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 ...

Whitney Brim-DeForest, University of California Cooperative Extension rice and wild rice advisor and county director, said growers have been able to get into the fields a little earlier than usual ...

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.