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Report Highlights Our Industry’s Essential Role

Report Highlights Our Industry’s Essential Role

Essential is the theme of the 2020 California Rice Commission Annual Report, which should be arriving in your mail shortly.

The report reviews the events of a very different year, including impacts from COVID-19. Work in key program area is highlighted, including water quality, crop protection, conservation and communications. It also looks ahead to future challenges for our industry, such as zero emission tractors, salts and a nesting cover initiative.

This report showcases a some of the many photographs we take each year of the people, places and wildlife that make California Rice all that it is. 

Click here to download a copy of the 2020 CRC Annual Report. 

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2025-26 CRC Board Nominations Open

2025-26 CRC Board Nominations Open

Producer nominations for the 2025-26 Board elections are now open. All eligible producers should receive a letter outlining the available seats and a nomination form. The form must be returned by July 15, 2025. 

The following are the available seats:

Total SeatsAvailable SeatsDistrict
MemberAlternateMemberAlternate
33-1-1District 1: Butte County
5501District 2: Colusa County
3311District 3: Glenn and Tehama counties, and counties north thereof
5533District 4: Yuba and Sutter counties
3322District 5: Sacramento, San Joaquin, Placer and Yolo counties, and counties south thereof

Contact Tim Johnson at tjohnson@calrice.org with any questions.

Emergency Commodity Assistance Program

Emergency Commodity Assistance Program

by USA Rice

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency launched the Emergency Commodity Assistance Program (ECAP), providing $10 billion in economic relief to producers of eligible commodities for the 2024 crop year.

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