How to Grow Rice in the Great California Desert!
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2019
- A lot of people think California is a desert and water should be used for something better than growing rice. Even if the state has excess water?
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Chances of Michael seeing this and actually learning something? Slim to none. Chances of Matt doing even more good work educating people on modern agriculture and its place in society? Excellent.
Thank you very much, Ferremit. I'll need to find Michael's and anyone else whose comment I included and reply with this video's link. I appreciate the kind, supportive words. Take care.
kalle kanin that’s valid, but just because someone claims that a farmer’s video isn’t factual doesn’t make it so. It doesn’t add anything to the discourse. Being skeptical is a lazy way not to believe something.
-M.
kalle kanin true, but you’ve provided nothing to back up your claims of the video being unfactual. Kinda like how making a blanket statement like all of California is a desert unsuitable for growing certain crops is.
If you want to see somewhere that’s TRULY unsuited to growing rice, yet they do it anyway, come visit Australia, where we do truely inane stuff like flood irrigate rice crops in an area that receives 350mm of rain a year, has 320mm of evapotranspiration a MONTH in summer and relies on irrigation from a river system that’s basically on the brink of collapse from over extraction. Fun fact, the biggest dam on the Murray river for irrigation water is 2.4M acre feet. Lake Oroville alone is 3.5M acre feet.
Sure, if you're really into propaganda. Then yes, this info is awesome.
Matt, gracefully responding to ignorance. Bravo!
Thank you, brother.
Part of the reason Rice Farming TV exists is to educate, and you're doing it masterfully Matt. Keep doing it.
You Rock Matt, some people just don't understand farming, can't fix stupid comments
In europe is the same
Thank you very much, Uncle Fester.
-M.
All Rice fields are desert till it gets water ! And with so much water flooding in you can grow anywhere in the world including so called "californian desert". LOL !
Uncle fester I agree people are idiots they are probably from the city
@@Ricefarmingtv you forgot to tell them you flood your fields to kill weeds not to allow rice to grow, rice is plant that can survive beeing flooded but weeds cannot right?
Being a 53, tomorrow I will be anyway, 1st generation rice farmer in Arkansas I love your videos and I have learned a lot from them. We all hear these comments, uneducated comments, and you handled this professionally and properly..
You can't fix stupid, but sometimes you can fix ignorance. Excellent rebuttal to those ignorant comments.
Wishing you and yours continued success.
You are a genius. My father was a farmer in Alberta. Farming is not well understood. I remember the blonde on the Tonight show. She told Jay Leno, "I would never kill a chicken. I get my chicken at Safeway."
i was landowner Alberta ;
the 'muricans will likely just shoot the desert water.....
I used to be critical when I first found your channel. So I decided to watch and learn and see how it works.
Thank you for your honest reply to those comments, Matt! I live in heart of the grass seed growing area of Oregon and am friends with many of the farmers around here. They are some of the hardest working business people I know.
Perfect explanation. Hard work and efficient use of resources the key to rice farming( any farming). Support from a organic rice farmer from India.
I'm glad you addressed these issues, Matthew. Your videos are always as educational as they are informative.
Good job explaining to the uninformed, Their comments are exactly why we need more farmers telling our stories.Keep up the good work .
Keep doing what you're doing. I and my family Thank You for all you and your family do for growing the Rice that we need.
You guys are real farmers... Dont mind those who say crap about your farming and they dont know any thing about rice... Except eating... Iam a beginner rice farmer and we do farming a lot different from u guys and we get same problems like this.. Sometimes there will be no water in the field for the tractor to plough or excess water also... Any way keep it up🙏🙏
This is by far my most favourite channel on UA-cam. Never knew how rice was grown but now I know. Greetings from South Africa
Greetings from Austria! I actually watched the planting by plane video yesterday and was fascinated how this is working in a state that is known for being dry.
Now I learned how fascinating it is. Thank you for your great work! Stay safe and I wish you the best!
Thank you for the update! I know that this is a busy time for you to release a video. I always look forward to a notification from you and the blancolirio channels! It is amazing that when individuals think of California, they think of LA and San Francisco but there is a whole other region that does so much good for the world. Keep up the hard work and look forward to the next video
Hey Matt my dad grew up in Paradise and Chico so I am very familiar with rice farming in the northern Sac valley. One of my fondest memories as a kid was riding in the back of a pickup on the paddy roads with one of my dads good friends from school. Keep up the great work with the videos they are fantastic.
i certainly got educated a bit more on rice farming, as well as cali's water problems. well explained and intresting to listen to.
I bought some rice at Chico’s farmers market and decided to do a little research on rice farming in CA. This is an excellent video, so fascinating, had no idea how much goes into growing rice here!
Beautiful stand of rice. I love rice and helping y'all out , one mouthful at a time.
I blend wild, brown and M rice together.
Thanks alot for your prompt and educational answer.
You are one of the best spokesmen for agriculture that I have seen. Keep up this valuable work! Many 👍👍👍👍👍😎
HATERS will be HATERS! I am glad you made this video to educate the uneducated people about agriculture.
Good to see you back. Thanks for all the information. Gotta love the people out there who know everything.
i live on the east coast, and before i found ur channel, i never knew rice was being grown out there. so i like how u show everything about it. thumbs up every time. thanks!!
Great informative video Matt, keep up the excellent work educating everyone, take care and watch your lovely rice fields mature.
Thank you for this video, growing up in the North East, where there is very little if any rice grown, I knew almost nothing about what it takes and all that you have to do to bring in a harvest of rice. Truly fascinating and mentally enriching.
What a video again, well said and thanks for the good work you're doing,
From a Kansas cattleman to a California rice farmer great job educating the world about sustainable agriculture keep it up we need all the help we can get
Loved every minute of your rant!
bastante detallada la explicación muy edificante la verdad , una bonita manera de cerrar bocazas, saludos
The way you calmly counter stupidity made within a few seconds used to post a comment is commendable.
Keep up the great work, offline and online.
Great video. Thanks, I have learnt a lot How to Grow Rice there.
Excellent video!
You said it. This guy's good and he had an great script.
Maybe he could give you his excess water :)
You're doing an amazing job. Sharing your knowledge with the world. Never farmed rice but all being well we'll start this year in Ghana.
Thank you dispelling these troupes
Great way to address it Mathew and great video all together!!
Great Job Matt, and once again great rice. People who have no clue spout off their pablam talking points without doing any research into the subject matter. You are a hard working American farmer and we love what you do to bring this into the public eye.
Awesome -love the work around on draining the water! Way to go Pops!
Excellent & very educational. Thanks
From a grain farmer in Saskatchewan I had no idea on how rice was grown you do a excellent job of going through the rice growing process keep up the great work I subscribed so I won’t miss harvest
Very well presented.
Thanks for the video.
Super Job Mathew ! I am so glad I farm in the Palouse and Northern Idaho where people still appreciate what farming contributes to society ! Farming is one of the leaders in use of technology and efficiency in all the USA ! Sadly most people today don't have a clue ! Thanks again Mathew for being an advocate for not only Rice but all Agriculture !
Keep up the great work Matt! Some people are just clueless, and so far removed from the farm they make these comments through ignorance because they not informed! You are doing a wonderful job speaking up for all farmers! As a dairy and Tobacco farmer I get lots of negative comments on social media! Some people are willing to listen and some people just think there right no matter what!
A lot of people thing food comes from the grocery store. They are clueless about what you and 10s of thousands of other farmers do to provide food for this and other countries world wide.
I learned a lot! Thank you :)
Well said, Matt. You addressed each point rationally and accurately. Maybe your best video so far. As a corn/soybean farmer I often have to address inaccurate comments. Goes with the territory
Thanks a lot, Nick. Now the problem is getting those commenters to watch a video response. Good luck out there, brother.
-M.
For those who don’t understand farming my advice is to: stop eating see how long they last no farmers no food
Awesome idea those know-it-all, who can't even be bothered to ask questions of those who actually know things!
a small garden.. three feet by twenty feet.. was enough to feed me and family of 4 for an entire summer and had enough left over to preserve through most of the winter.. Really, while farming is important for many, it can be rather easy to provide for ones self.. Sure, there were one or two crop types that I still needed to buy at the grocery.. Flour and Rice coincidently.. but I didn't by California rice.. I bought Carolina Rice and I bought Imported rice. So why do California Farmers Grow Rice... its because they really don't get much rain at all... He complained about 4 inches of natural rain fall as if that were a big deal.. They grow there specifically because California Water is rather easy to control and rainfall is very very scarce for the most part.. The California Water Service can flood his fields close to his exact specifications.. and as long as no natural rain occurs he is set.
That ends up being the indicator.. That the rice farming there is un natural.. the primitive wetlands that existed before the rice farms.. were there year round.. they weren't draining and re filling.. they were there full time for how many hundred years.. they weren't just a seasonal pastime and that water was efficiently feeding California plant life and wildlife.. unlike the seasonal captures and complete purges that happen now.
I am a Whole Foods Plant-Based Vegan who is always high on carbs. I ate 20 lb of brown rice every month mixed with vegetables, I am plant strong and healthy. Thank you rice Farmers I appreciate the work that you do.
You need a good hamburger my friend
Making all California rice growers proud I’m sure. Keep up the great work 👍
A very well articulated response
Missed you. Thanks for the update! :-)
What an amazing job you have done! It's just fantastic! 👍👏🙂
wow, the passion, you explained it perfectly. I do believe people in California are confused by water issues and there are just so many voices coming from so many directions. But you were concise and have the knowledge to share it, good on you for throwing it back.
Good knowledge in this video thank for sharing ❤❤❤❤
All thumbs up Matt. I chewed gum the other day. It was made with rice flour and rice sugar. First thing I thought of was you and your family. I think you explained that very well. The reservoirs were built for farming and recreation. Without the farm you would loose all the business at each lake. And the water storage is great for when the state is dry. You keep making rice so I can eat gum, sushi 🍣, and sweeten my beverage and keep healthy. Thanks.
Excellent episode Matt!
Thank you for the interesting information. I love your channel.
That was very educational. Thankyou.
Well PLAYED Matt...Well spoken... Easily understood. Saturated with common sense and facts. We all can tell it has been a busy summer working the rice fields with POPS. Good luck with the 2019 harvest !
Rarely comment on any videos, but you Sir, Bravo. Thourghly enjoyed watching the playlist and this episode just hits the nail on the head! Outstanding! 👏👏👏
I appreciate your good efforts in rice farming. Good video.
Keep on Farming Rice, I support you!
Thanx, we’re harvesting our first crop now, kind of late this year, we had a wet spring also, some farms won’t get second cuttings
Absolutely great video
I think you gave a reasoned response to the thoughtless critical comments you cited. I absolutely agree with your statement on the answer to problems being to build up, not tear down. It’s way more difficult to build than to destroy, and only competent people contribute by creating or building up. You are making the world a better place. God bless you and your family! Good luck on a bumper crop.
Thanks for allowing us to understand.
Matt. This is your best video yet.
I really enjoyed your video, very informative and it changed my thoughts on the situation (growing rice in the former wetlands, not desert). I especially liked how you took the comments of people and systematically explained away their ignorance on the subject matter. You are doing the rice industry and public a good service. I wonder if the farmers of other crops in the dry arid regions of California can justify growing food in the desert with transferred water. I enjoy my almonds, nuts in general, fruits and vegetables from California, but believe it's unsubstantial because of future mega droughts. My example is the migration of a once thriving population of native people from Mesa Verde in Colorado 1200 years ago because of a major drought in an arid desert, they had to migrate to survive.
I enjoy watching and learning about rice since there isn't much of it grown here in Kansas. Also enjoyed how you took the time to try to inform those who think farming and ranching is a waste of time since they can just go to the grocery store for all of your food.
UC Davis grad student here. I drive up north to do field work and I always enjoy looking at the rice fields!
Very interesting and also very enlightening thanks for your time
Hi Jeffrey, thanks for tuning in!
-Matthew
DEF not too ranty at all!!!!!!!! Growing up in a farming family from Glenn Co-I've heard some similar uneducated babble. Unfortunately most folks, even those in surrounding states, think that we're either all beach/all desert or all Lake Tahoe. I feel folks make these types of comments because they dont understand the process-which you did an AMAZING job of re-explaining!!! Thank you so very much for providing food for the masses and educating them as well. It takes a very special person :)
I just saw this video. Just an amazing field youve got there at the US. I'm from north borneo and just being amazed how modern your equipment. From where I'm from, most of our rice farmers still growing rice traditionally without any power tools or modern machine.
I love that you are doing these videos, I always feel that our rice farming community is unrepresented, along with other agriculture, especially in Northern California, Scott Davis here, Davis Machine Shop, Meridian,Ca
Keep fighting the good fight Matt! Those comments are precisely why what you are doing via Rice Farming TV is so important to the agricultural industry in California and beyond. The only way to combat ignorance is through education!
Love the videos and the voice overs , living in Ireland I only see rice on a plate. Good to see wild live friendly Rice.
You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for such clear, concise and emotional presentation. As a third generation Rice Farmer, you have more than earned the right not only educate, but also the right to emote when offended. Your defense of your families efforts and contributions to all America was excellent. Thank you.
I have learned a ton since finding this channel. Thanks for taking the time to do that. I would not worry too much about the folks out there who are just miserable...!!
Beautiful crop. I live in Thailand and enjoy driving past the rice fields near my wife's hometown.
If I could like this video one million times, I would. Nicely done!
l purchase short graim rice from Caliform here in Germany ,please keep it up.
Like most things nobody ever thinks about, Rice Farming is a complicated business. Everyone just goes to the store and buys the rice that 'magically' appears on the shelf. It appears that the ' magic' is what Matt (and others) provide. Keep up the videos, and the 'magic'.
As a child of a rice farmer family, I enjoy watching your videos. Greetings from Turkey.
be proud living in a place like this.. ill take hard work with nature over sitting in some rotten floor box not even realizing what life is all about. Awesome vid man
Great video man!
Great response. Thoughtful and to the point. I use to work on a farm in Mississippi that raised rice, among other crops. To me rice is till the best looking crop and yours is further evidence of that.
2 thumbs up. I appreciate your attention to detail.
Great job love rice work 👏
Great job!
You are a great spokesperson for the CA rice industry, Matthew. I buy CA rice, like I buy CA wine, almonds, olive oil, and other produce. Thanks for the work you put into your videos, which are always educational, interesting, engaging and humorous.
Tom Collins I’ll drink to that
If you Google rice farming and see how other farmers grown it around the world - you set the benchmark to measure others against. You are right to answer "annoying" questions. Many consumers in the industrialised world have no idea where food comes from (other than supermarket shelves). Another great video.
The keyboard jockeys that are commenting are probably eating sushi while they are complaining . Farmers are what the USA is about . Keep up the good work Matt.
Well put Mathew
Keep up the good work 👍👍
From a use to be tobacco farmer, Well Said and keep up the good work 👍🏻
Great video love the editing and presentation style very original
I was educated and I liked the video.
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Thank you for farming rice
Great video on responding to the hate and correcting them!👍🤠
Just keep doing what you guys do best is farm Rica...
Thank you, Chris!
-M.