In the winter, rice fields in the Sacramento region are flooded with water. It’s a common method to prepare the field for new growth. With the help of a program led by California Trout ...

Google has signed four new partnerships aimed at supporting water stewardship and sustainable farming practices in watersheds ...

For decades, the number of salmon in the river has sharply dropped, but now scientists believe they just might have a ...

A record-setting amount of food for endangered fish was produced this winter on California rice fields, scientists say. The ...

Nearly all of the 93,583 hectares of drought-affected rice fields across 17 provinces and the capital, have been irrigated ...

Current practices are wasteful of increasingly scarce and costly resources such as water and fossil fuels. Heavily fertilized, continuously flooded rice fields produce greenhouse gases that contribute ...

It is flooded with water that must be kept at a constant ... One project that came up was rice field monitoring using wireless sensor networks and it caught the attention of some of the members ...

Terracing, which requires constant maintenance, allows water to flow continuously down through successive rice fields (see Build a Rice Paddy). Farmers usually plant rice seed in a seedbed ...

birds and snakes reliant on farms without adequate water allocations. “For decades now, our growers have seen firsthand how much their rice fields are used by wildlife all throughout the year ...