Dry cracked earth reveals an empty irrigation ditch in a fallowed rice field in this 2021 file photo. ... “Unfortunately, those protections for winter-run didn’t help the fish,” Bettner said.

Winter flooding critical. The authors emphasize that rice acreage alone — even as much as 500,000 acres — will not sustain these species unless water is available during the winter and during critical ...

Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District Manager Thad Bettner said farmers in his district will likely plant only 2,000 acres of a total 100,000 acres of rice normally produced — Just 2% of normal ...

KNIGHTS LANDING, Calif. — Driving between her northern Central Valley rice fields with the family dog in tow, fifth-generation farmer Kim Gallagher points out the window to shorebirds, egrets ...

George Tibbitts, a third-generation farmer in Arbuckle, CA, has been growing rice on his 1,200-acre farm for three decades. His Sacramento Valley irrigation district, one of the oldest in the state, ...

Rice is usually a monsoon crop in India, but this farmer sows a field of rice in winter. Indian agriculture. ... But even if all Indian regions currently using depleted groundwater switch to canal ...

Workers with the Nigiri Project head out to test pens in the flooded rice fields near Sacramento. Alastair Bland. Jacob Katz stands atop a long, narrow wall of rock and gravel, gazing east over an ...