The CRC annual grower meetings in Colusa and Yuba City provided comprehensive updates of issues important to our industry.
Presenters covered a lot of territory, including the Farm Bill, the Trump Administration and a State Capitol update, as well as the latest on water, international trade and ag overtime.
If you would like to see the speaker’s presentations, they can be found here»
Rice growers will be receiving nominations forms for available CRC Board of Director seats mid-June. Please take a minute to nominate eligible growers to represent your district.
This year there are 18 eligible board seats, that have been allocated to each of the five districts based on 2020 planted acres. Open seats by district are indicated in the following table:
2021/22 CRC Board
Available Seats for Election
| Total Seats | Avail Seat | |||
| Member | Alt | Member | Alt | |
| Dist 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Dist 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Dist 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Dist 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Dist 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Note: Includes filling current vacant member/alternate seats
Ballots, based on nominations received, will be mailed July 30.
Contact Tim Johnson at 916-387-2264 or tjohnson@calrice.org with questions about the election.
Next week marks the continuation of public workshops by the Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) of Sutter Groundwater Subbasin in preparing a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) in response to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).
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We start monitoring Lambda-cyhalothrin (Warrior, Lambda-cy, Silencer, etc.) in the water column plus sediment sampling this year. The sampling takes place at the drain sites we use for thiobencarb monitoring. This will be our first experience with compliance to the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements. The TMDL is a forever monitoring program and we anticipate positive results leading to future modifications. We have never had an issue with our long history monitoring the pyrethroid insecticides. However, we have no ability to correlate the past results with the newer and much lower analytical methods.
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