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Article: Splendors of the rice fields. (Sacramento Valley, California)(includes related article)
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- Sunset
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- October 1, 1994
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The Sacramento Valley hosts the West's great rice harvest, spectacular waterfowl migrations, and a promising new program to help protect both
IT'S HARVESTTIME IN CALIFORNIA'S RICE BOWL. UP AND DOWN THE VAST floor of the Sacramento Valley, big harvesters cruise summer-browned fields, flushing red-winged blackbirds and Western mead-owlarks as they methodically mow back and forth between dark levees. From a patchwork of 500,000 acres, valley farmers will reap one of the most productive and varied rice crops in the world, supplying tables at home and abroad with short-, medium-, and long-grain rices, aromatic rices, sweet and novelty colored rices, and the grass seed ...