{"id":1507023,"date":"2022-06-07T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507023"},"modified":"2022-06-07T17:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T21:50:48","slug":"northern-california-county-will-produce-significantly-less-rice-due-to-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/northern-california-county-will-produce-significantly-less-rice-due-to-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California County Will Produce Significantly Less Rice Due To Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorthern-california-county-will-produce-significantly-less-rice-due-to-water-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507023&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">A county in Northern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/california\">California<\/a> is being heavily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technocracy.news\/california-shuts-off-water-to-farmers-to-save-fish\/\">impacted<\/a> by low water supply, and its rice crop will be significantly less substantial as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Colusa County is the number one producer of rice in the Sacramento Valley, <a href=\"https:\/\/californiaglobe.com\/articles\/with-water-cut-to-rice-growers-colusa-county-asks-for-economic-assistance\/\">according<\/a> to the California Globe. In a typical year, it can produce over 150,000 acres of rice. However, in 2022, Colusa officials said they will only be able to grow a portion of their typical crop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe economic devastation is unprecedented,\u201d Colusa County Administrator Wendy Tyler told the Globe. \u201cPeople aren\u2019t dying, but businesses and communities are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The initial half of the water in California is pushed out into the ocean because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/environmentalism\">environmental<\/a> reasons and endangered fish species, meaning less is allocated to the farms that need it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn April 2022, the water districts serving Colusa County were given their final allocation for the 2022 growing season \u2013 0.4-acre feet per acre,\u201d\u00a0Colusa County officials said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countyofcolusa.org\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=532\">statement<\/a>, per the Globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis allocation is not enough to support rice production, and estimates show that the Sacramento Valley will fallow 370,000 of 450,000 acres in the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors service area, primarily in Colusa and Glenn Counties,\u201d they added. \u201cCurrently, less than 7,000 acres are estimated to be planted in Colusa County, resulting in a direct financial loss to growers in excess of $270 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">California is the second-largest rice-producing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usarice.com\/thinkrice\/discover-us-rice\/where-rice-grows\">state<\/a> in the nation, just below Arkansas, and around 95% of the rice in the state <a href=\"https:\/\/apps1.cdfa.ca.gov\/FertilizerResearch\/docs\/Rice_Production_CA.pdf\">comes<\/a> from the Sacramento Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The situation lines up with what Bill Diedrich, president of the California Farm Water Coalition, recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gweditingthe-fertilizer-crisis-impacting-california-farmers\">The Daily Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe products that we grow this year are on the grocery store shelves next year, certainly not the fresh products, but the processed products,\u201d Diedrich explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI believe that it\u2019s going to show up next year on the grocery store shelves in the processed products shortage,\u201d he said, noting that there are 300,000 acres of rice that are not being grown in northern California \u201cbecause there\u2019s no water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Colusa County authorities recently held a legislative tour and informational session for Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), explaining just how dire the situation has become from the historic drought and a recent freeze that impacted the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tyler discussed the meeting with the Globe, and said that the agricultural sector of the county is being hit in the same way that COVID-19 lockdowns destroyed businesses and cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe need a payroll protection plan and rental assistance,\u201d Tyler said. \u201cWe have the third largest farm worker housing in the state. Thousands of people come to Colusa County every season, and work with Colusa County\u2019s own people. Their children go to Colusa schools, so when they aren\u2019t here it impacts our ADA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She pointed out that when growers aren\u2019t able to plant and produce crops, people all along the supply chain are negatively impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A county in Northern California is being heavily impacted by low water supply, and its rice crop will be significantly less substantial as a result. Colusa County is the number one producer of rice in the Sacramento Valley, according to the California Globe. 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