California Rice Commission
@ricenews.bsky.social
The California Rice Commission represents family farmers who grow rice in California. We make rice work for wildlife, the environment, and the communities we love.
The Causeway commute looks a little different this time of year. 🚗🚜
Harvest season is in full swing. Soon these fields will trade tractors for waterfowl migrating along the #PacificFlyway. #CARice
Harvest season is in full swing. Soon these fields will trade tractors for waterfowl migrating along the #PacificFlyway. #CARice
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Causeway commute looks a little different this time of year. 🚗🚜
Harvest season is in full swing. Soon these fields will trade tractors for waterfowl migrating along the #PacificFlyway. #CARice
Harvest season is in full swing. Soon these fields will trade tractors for waterfowl migrating along the #PacificFlyway. #CARice
California rice is stored in silos until it’s milled and packaged, and inspected at every step for quality.
It’s a process built on precision, stewardship, and generations of experience. 🌾
It’s a process built on precision, stewardship, and generations of experience. 🌾
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
California rice is stored in silos until it’s milled and packaged, and inspected at every step for quality.
It’s a process built on precision, stewardship, and generations of experience. 🌾
It’s a process built on precision, stewardship, and generations of experience. 🌾
At the dryer, rice is unloaded, cleaned, and prepared for storage.
Each load is handled with care to maintain quality and consistency.
Each load is handled with care to maintain quality and consistency.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
At the dryer, rice is unloaded, cleaned, and prepared for storage.
Each load is handled with care to maintain quality and consistency.
Each load is handled with care to maintain quality and consistency.
Trucks then haul the rice from the field to drying and storage facilities, often within a few miles of where it was grown.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Trucks then haul the rice from the field to drying and storage facilities, often within a few miles of where it was grown.
As the combine fills, rice is transferred into a grain cart. All part of a carefully timed relay that keeps harvest moving nonstop.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
As the combine fills, rice is transferred into a grain cart. All part of a carefully timed relay that keeps harvest moving nonstop.
Inside the cab, harvest begins.
Modern combines use GPS and sensors to ensure efficiency and precision, cutting rice cleanly while minimizing waste.
Modern combines use GPS and sensors to ensure efficiency and precision, cutting rice cleanly while minimizing waste.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Inside the cab, harvest begins.
Modern combines use GPS and sensors to ensure efficiency and precision, cutting rice cleanly while minimizing waste.
Modern combines use GPS and sensors to ensure efficiency and precision, cutting rice cleanly while minimizing waste.
Before cutting begins, growers make final adjustments to their combines — the massive machines that cut, thresh, and separate rice grain from the stalk.
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Before cutting begins, growers make final adjustments to their combines — the massive machines that cut, thresh, and separate rice grain from the stalk.
Rice harvest is underway across the Sacramento Valley.
From golden fields to grain bins, here’s how California rice makes its journey from field to table. (🧵)
From golden fields to grain bins, here’s how California rice makes its journey from field to table. (🧵)
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Rice harvest is underway across the Sacramento Valley.
From golden fields to grain bins, here’s how California rice makes its journey from field to table. (🧵)
From golden fields to grain bins, here’s how California rice makes its journey from field to table. (🧵)
It's harvest time in California's rice growing season.
Combines cut the rice and separate the grains, all in one go. Farmers work fast to yield nearly 8,500 lbs. of rice per acre before the rain arrives!
Combines cut the rice and separate the grains, all in one go. Farmers work fast to yield nearly 8,500 lbs. of rice per acre before the rain arrives!
September 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It's harvest time in California's rice growing season.
Combines cut the rice and separate the grains, all in one go. Farmers work fast to yield nearly 8,500 lbs. of rice per acre before the rain arrives!
Combines cut the rice and separate the grains, all in one go. Farmers work fast to yield nearly 8,500 lbs. of rice per acre before the rain arrives!
It’s not all waterfowl in California rice fields. 🌾🐢
The Western Pond Turtle — the state’s only remaining freshwater turtle — is finding refuge here too.
The Western Pond Turtle — the state’s only remaining freshwater turtle — is finding refuge here too.
September 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s not all waterfowl in California rice fields. 🌾🐢
The Western Pond Turtle — the state’s only remaining freshwater turtle — is finding refuge here too.
The Western Pond Turtle — the state’s only remaining freshwater turtle — is finding refuge here too.
Recess reading: new @ucdaviswater.bsky.social overview of the Conservation Footprint—how ~½-million acres of rice support birds, fish & snakes. 🌾📘 #CARice #CALeg
calrice.org/rice-footprint
calrice.org/rice-footprint
September 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Recess reading: new @ucdaviswater.bsky.social overview of the Conservation Footprint—how ~½-million acres of rice support birds, fish & snakes. 🌾📘 #CARice #CALeg
calrice.org/rice-footprint
calrice.org/rice-footprint
⏱️August in California rice fields 🌾
"Heading" season. This is when the grain head pushes out of the stem, forming flowers. Those green clusters are the flowers that become rice kernels.
These weeks decide the harvest. #CARice
"Heading" season. This is when the grain head pushes out of the stem, forming flowers. Those green clusters are the flowers that become rice kernels.
These weeks decide the harvest. #CARice
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
⏱️August in California rice fields 🌾
"Heading" season. This is when the grain head pushes out of the stem, forming flowers. Those green clusters are the flowers that become rice kernels.
These weeks decide the harvest. #CARice
"Heading" season. This is when the grain head pushes out of the stem, forming flowers. Those green clusters are the flowers that become rice kernels.
These weeks decide the harvest. #CARice
The Korean burger chain @lotteria0burger.bsky.social just opened its first US location in Fullerton, CA.
Their menu features a Bibim Rice Burger?!? We will see you soon. 🤤
asianews.network/k-burgers-hi...
Their menu features a Bibim Rice Burger?!? We will see you soon. 🤤
asianews.network/k-burgers-hi...
August 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Korean burger chain @lotteria0burger.bsky.social just opened its first US location in Fullerton, CA.
Their menu features a Bibim Rice Burger?!? We will see you soon. 🤤
asianews.network/k-burgers-hi...
Their menu features a Bibim Rice Burger?!? We will see you soon. 🤤
asianews.network/k-burgers-hi...
California’s ~500k rice acres double as pop-up wetlands, feeding 230+ species on the #PacificFlyway every winter. 🌾➡️🦆 #CARice #WorkingWetlands
August 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
California’s ~500k rice acres double as pop-up wetlands, feeding 230+ species on the #PacificFlyway every winter. 🌾➡️🦆 #CARice #WorkingWetlands
45 seconds, one field, one year at McKenzie Farms:
In spring, open the ground & precision-level; add 5 inches of water; grow through spring–summer; harvest in fall; welcome winter habitat for the Pacific Flyway. 🌾🦆
In spring, open the ground & precision-level; add 5 inches of water; grow through spring–summer; harvest in fall; welcome winter habitat for the Pacific Flyway. 🌾🦆
August 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
45 seconds, one field, one year at McKenzie Farms:
In spring, open the ground & precision-level; add 5 inches of water; grow through spring–summer; harvest in fall; welcome winter habitat for the Pacific Flyway. 🌾🦆
In spring, open the ground & precision-level; add 5 inches of water; grow through spring–summer; harvest in fall; welcome winter habitat for the Pacific Flyway. 🌾🦆
Research shows it would take over 426,000 acres of ricelands to sustain Black Terns above 1,000 individuals — the threshold for long-term survival.
In 2023, rice fields supported more than 3,200.
Rice is helping keep #BlackTern flying.
#ItsInOurNature #BirdsofBlueSky
In 2023, rice fields supported more than 3,200.
Rice is helping keep #BlackTern flying.
#ItsInOurNature #BirdsofBlueSky
June 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Research shows it would take over 426,000 acres of ricelands to sustain Black Terns above 1,000 individuals — the threshold for long-term survival.
In 2023, rice fields supported more than 3,200.
Rice is helping keep #BlackTern flying.
#ItsInOurNature #BirdsofBlueSky
In 2023, rice fields supported more than 3,200.
Rice is helping keep #BlackTern flying.
#ItsInOurNature #BirdsofBlueSky
Black Terns aren’t just visiting rice country — they depend on it.
Research shows that without flooded rice fields, California's Black Tern population would face serious risk of local extinction.
watershed.ucdavis.edu/project/cons...
📸Credit: Brian Baer
Research shows that without flooded rice fields, California's Black Tern population would face serious risk of local extinction.
watershed.ucdavis.edu/project/cons...
📸Credit: Brian Baer
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Black Terns aren’t just visiting rice country — they depend on it.
Research shows that without flooded rice fields, California's Black Tern population would face serious risk of local extinction.
watershed.ucdavis.edu/project/cons...
📸Credit: Brian Baer
Research shows that without flooded rice fields, California's Black Tern population would face serious risk of local extinction.
watershed.ucdavis.edu/project/cons...
📸Credit: Brian Baer
Black Terns have lost more than 90% of their historic nesting habitat in California’s Central Valley.
Today, rice fields provide nearly all the remaining breeding habitat for this species of special concern.
#ItsInOurNature #BlackTern #CAWildlife #BirdsofBlueSky
Today, rice fields provide nearly all the remaining breeding habitat for this species of special concern.
#ItsInOurNature #BlackTern #CAWildlife #BirdsofBlueSky
June 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Black Terns have lost more than 90% of their historic nesting habitat in California’s Central Valley.
Today, rice fields provide nearly all the remaining breeding habitat for this species of special concern.
#ItsInOurNature #BlackTern #CAWildlife #BirdsofBlueSky
Today, rice fields provide nearly all the remaining breeding habitat for this species of special concern.
#ItsInOurNature #BlackTern #CAWildlife #BirdsofBlueSky
Greater Sandhill Cranes are among the oldest bird species alive today, with North American fossil records dating back 2.5m years.
In the absence of historic wetlands, they rely on California’s Sacramento Valley rice fields for essential winter roosting and feeding grounds.
#Conservation #Birding
In the absence of historic wetlands, they rely on California’s Sacramento Valley rice fields for essential winter roosting and feeding grounds.
#Conservation #Birding
May 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Greater Sandhill Cranes are among the oldest bird species alive today, with North American fossil records dating back 2.5m years.
In the absence of historic wetlands, they rely on California’s Sacramento Valley rice fields for essential winter roosting and feeding grounds.
#Conservation #Birding
In the absence of historic wetlands, they rely on California’s Sacramento Valley rice fields for essential winter roosting and feeding grounds.
#Conservation #Birding
The Greater Sandhill Crane can stand 5 feet tall with a 7 foot wingspan.
A threatened species in California, the GSC relies on over 43k acres of flooded rice to serve as roosting habitat.
#Conservation #GreaterSandhillCrane #BirdsOfBluesky
A threatened species in California, the GSC relies on over 43k acres of flooded rice to serve as roosting habitat.
#Conservation #GreaterSandhillCrane #BirdsOfBluesky
May 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The Greater Sandhill Crane can stand 5 feet tall with a 7 foot wingspan.
A threatened species in California, the GSC relies on over 43k acres of flooded rice to serve as roosting habitat.
#Conservation #GreaterSandhillCrane #BirdsOfBluesky
A threatened species in California, the GSC relies on over 43k acres of flooded rice to serve as roosting habitat.
#Conservation #GreaterSandhillCrane #BirdsOfBluesky
Rice seeds take quite a ride before landing in Sutter County rice lands.
May 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Rice seeds take quite a ride before landing in Sutter County rice lands.
Ever wonder how rice fields are planted? It starts with a plane, a steady hand, and a whole lot of precision. 🌾✈️ #AerialSeeding
May 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ever wonder how rice fields are planted? It starts with a plane, a steady hand, and a whole lot of precision. 🌾✈️ #AerialSeeding
May 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
California's Central Valley is a vital wintering ground for millions of waterfowl along the #PacificFlyway. Flooded rice fields provide critical foraging habitat for waterfowl during winter.
May 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
California's Central Valley is a vital wintering ground for millions of waterfowl along the #PacificFlyway. Flooded rice fields provide critical foraging habitat for waterfowl during winter.
California rice provides more than half of the food energy supply needed to support the large, diverse community of shorebirds in the non-breeding season.
A recent @ucdavis.bsky.social report indicates ~374k acres of ricelands are needed to support nonbreeding shorebird conservation goals.
A recent @ucdavis.bsky.social report indicates ~374k acres of ricelands are needed to support nonbreeding shorebird conservation goals.
May 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
California rice provides more than half of the food energy supply needed to support the large, diverse community of shorebirds in the non-breeding season.
A recent @ucdavis.bsky.social report indicates ~374k acres of ricelands are needed to support nonbreeding shorebird conservation goals.
A recent @ucdavis.bsky.social report indicates ~374k acres of ricelands are needed to support nonbreeding shorebird conservation goals.