The California Ricelands Waterbird Foundation is now accepting applications for its Spring 2025 Bid4Birds Program. Applications are submitted through the Foundation website and the enrollment window will be open until Monday, January 13, 2025.
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The California Ricelands Waterbird Foundation (Foundation) is happy to announce the upcoming enrollment period for the Spring Bid4Birds habitat program.
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Join us for the CRC Annual Grower Meetings on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, in Williams and Yuba City. Discover the latest developments on important issues facing our industry, including the Rice Footprint report, the next farm bill, state and federal policy, the water year outlook, and key CRC programs.
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We are providing this update on work supporting the Rice Footprint – the number of rice acres needed to support our communities and the environment.
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Complete the required annual testing for 2024
The California Rice Commission’s Waste Discharge Requirement (WDR) requires, beginning in 2022, each grower (or landowner) to conduct annual testing for nitrates in all drinking water supply wells present on parcels where rice is produced. The results are reported directly from the analytical laboratory to the State’s GeoTracker database.
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Here, we share a brief update on the winter-flooding programs being implemented this winter. We are happy to report that an additional $1 million has been added to the State’s California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program, which provides payment for winter flooding for next winter (2025-26).
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California Waterfowl Association (CWA) is currently soliciting applications for the Rice Levee and Ag Corridors Program. This program is funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, through the Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program, which allows private landowners to submit bids for the management of their internal rice levees or road edges for upland nesting bird species (Mallard, Gadwall and Pheasant). To participate in this program, rice levees and roads must be reconstructed or mowed before January 1st or left from previous growing season. Enrolled areas must be left undisturbed until July 15th.
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For several years, CRC worked in partnership with a few other agricultural groups to intensively focus on California’s Zero-emission Forklift (ZEF) Regulation. In the Summer of 2024, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) formally adopted the regulation after multiple years of work by our coalition resulting in solid regulatory relief for CRC members and all of California agriculture.
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California Waterfowl Association (CWA) is currently soliciting applications for the Rice Levee and Ag Corridors Program. This program is funded by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, through the Nesting Bird Habitat Incentive Program, which allows private landowners to submit bids for the management of their internal rice levees or road edges for upland nesting bird species (Mallard, Gadwall and Pheasant). To participate in this program, rice levees and roads must be reconstructed or mowed before January 1st or left from previous growing season. Enrolled areas must be left undisturbed until July 15th.
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In the first 8 months of 2023, 38,000 people visited CALRICE.org, equaling 100 people per day. In the first 8 months of 2024, 379,000 people visited CALRICE.org, totaling more than 1,000 people per day.
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