With great sadness, we share the news of Bill Huffman’s passing on August 3, 2021 after years of struggling with ALS.
Bill was a fixture in the industry during his 33 years of service to Farmers’ Rice Cooperative. He was an encyclopedia of industry knowledge and made it his life’s work to advance California rice. Bill made an effort to befriend everyone he ran into whether a politician or a doorman. After a few minutes of banter he figured out that he likely knew someone they knew. Bill loved politics and always a gentleman. Ever quick with a joke or a prank, he will be missed.
In response to extreme drought-related concerns for Pacific Flyway waterbirds, the California rice industry has teamed up with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to fund a special $8 million Drought Relief Waterbird Program. This program seeks to create waterbird habitat through the operation of groundwater wells to winter flood rice fields for migratory birds. The program will be rolled out on an expedited timeframe, given the rice harvest schedule this year.
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The fourth rice-specific pest management course will take place Friday, September 10, at the Hamilton Road Field and Rice Experiment Station in Biggs.
The event includes weed and pest identification, regulatory updates, new herbicides for resistance management and constructing a weed management program, among other topics.
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Hundreds of growers and industry officials gathered in Biggs today, for the annual Rice Field Day at the California Rice Experiment Station (RES) in Biggs.
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The State Water Resources Control Board on Friday announced a further step in the curtailment process, based on this year’s water shortfall.
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Ducks Unlimited and California Waterfowl are thinking hard about ways that rice growers can make their fields as valuable as possible for ducks, even in this severe drought when decomp water will be hard to come by this fall.
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The annual Rice Field Day will be held Wednesday, August 25, at the Rice Experiment Station in Biggs, providing growers and other interested parties a chance to see and hear about the latest information on research projects.
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The University of California Cooperative Extension will hold weedy rice meetings at two valley locations: this Thursday, August 19, in Glenn County, and Friday, August 20, in Colusa County.
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A reminder that ballots must be voted and postmarked by August 16, in order to count for the current CRC Board of Directors elections. If you have not received a ballot, please contact the CRC offices at 916-387-2264.
