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.
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..
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 !
@@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?
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🙏🙏
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 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.
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'.
Great video that truly explains the real perspective and benefits of rice farming. As a livestock rancher I hear the same ignorant arguments too, it is more efficient to eat plant based foods and so forth. The only problem with that mentality is that the land I graze for livestock is not good for farming, it has too many elevation changes and in farming that would allow too much soil erosion and it is just poor quality soil. Yet I can let it grow native fauna and graze sheep on it and completely utilize it while preserving and protecting the local environment and creeks all while providing a quality meat product that other wise would have been wasted space.
Wow, call me ignorant, but I need to tell you that I thought America only import rice from Asia. Anyway, I went to Costco yesterday to buy rice. Guess what did first, checked where it came from, and was surprised that it was actually grown right here in our own country, I couldn't believe it!!! Thanks for this video, I'm totally assured that I am eating rice grown from America, not imported from other countries. Thank you for this great video, it's very informative. Our students should watch all your videos. God bless you all rice farmers, you're great!
My grandfather used to have rice fields,but he did everything by himself, it's not easy, however ,the rice taste the best, because bwe have our own machine at home, so we all excited about every year's new harvest
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Matt, the people who leave comments like that are the reason you have to put a disclaimer on your store that says "truck not included" when showing your magnetic sticker for sale. There is a term used in marketing; "you have to assume you're selling to the wit-less boob". The same reason there are warning stickers on lawn mowers telling the operator to not stick their hands into the blade while it's running.
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.
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.
I've been farming for over 17years now, rice will survive in any climate. I am young farmer, I'd experienced a lot in terms of rice farming. Drought is more productive than rainy season. Base on my experience here in the Philippines.
08:04 I'm reminded of the "amber waves of grain" verse in one of the US' many unofficial national anthems, although in this case it's more like, "amber waves of *recordscratch* ... rice‽"
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.
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.
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 :)
wow i live in SOUTH EAST ASIA.. so i eat rice almost everyday, Never grow i just buy at shop... :)) by way awesome Video and THANK YOU you make Growing rice AWESOME COOL!
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.
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
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 !
Thanks for the hard debunking. Reading those comments hurt (partly because of all the face palms). A few more details: -I don't think people understand how much California is a flood plain. The central valley used to become an ENTIRE SEA where you could take a SHIP from NorCal to SoCal in the valley. Having the water just dammed up and levy is NOT normal for the environment. When non-Natives started going there, they noticed that the flood debris was in the trees. The Chinese community in the 1800s had to build their traditional stilt houses to avoid flooding. Sacramento had to be jacked upwards. The water can't just stay between the levies. It HAS to go somewhere. -Desert doesn't mean no rain. A desert can have lots of rain, it just loses that water quickly. You know what technology was developed to keep water in? Rice paddies. -California is predicted to get dryer, not from lack of precipation, but lack of snow melt. Instead of having a somewhat steady source of water, that water is going to come down as rain that needs to be captured somehow. You know how people catch water in Asia? Take a guess. 😁 Not saying that the agriculture industry doesn't waste water, but people need to stop judging CA for feeding them. There's so many other issues to judge CA on. 😂 Stop creating demand for the problematic food if you don't like the ag.
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 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.
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
Non Californians loves trashing and bashing California, yet they sure love their fresh fruits and vegetables in their local grocery stores. I’m a long haul trucker and has been for 16 years now after serving 12 years in the Army. Ive traveled around the country including Canada delivering fruits and vegetables. When I heard comments about negative things in California, I would ask these individuals where do they buy their vegetables and fruits and if they enjoy their vegetables and fruits year round not just seasonal. They don’t have a clue. Thank you so much for educating these ignorant people. That is if they want to be educated. Ignorance is a very expensive price to pay.
greetings and success of farmers from South Sumatra Indonesia. 🇲🇨🇲🇨 May the farmers' crops be bountiful and the farmers will be blessed, will have an abundant age and health amen🤲🤲👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾
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.
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 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!!
I worked (past tense) for a tractor company. What most people know about California is what they get from bad television. That bad television includes the news. Most people think California is all Bay Area, L.A., or Orange County. They have no idea that California is the one of the largest diary producers or rice producers. Most people don't know that California has generations of people that grow grapes, peaches, oranges, garlic, rice, celery, almonds, walnuts, tomatoes, and the that list goes just goes on and on. And those farmers produce those crops without a government subsidy. Further agriculture has been and continues to be one of the largest industries in California. But most people just see Hollywood and Silicon Valley when they think of California. California is the 9th largest economy in the world because economically and industrially, it is diverse.
The trolls just make it that much easier to explain how rice farming works and be able to pick on the trolls at the same time. Thank you for the update on how your crops are doing. I was thinking about how things were going with your rice crops the other day.
Those comments aren't coming from trolls, those come from Progressives (sic). They should be called RE-gressives. They are the new Democrats, the AOC's and her so-called Squad. Really they are just socialists. And ignorant to boot. "This country will never be a socialist country". Best quote of the year!
@@SteveMillerhuntingforfood i agree with you on who they are but, i just call them troll because that is what they are lol. Have good day; Scruffy out.
Nice! Keep it up! China started desert farming and reforestation 40 years ago, while many countries criticized them. Over the years, 20 billion trees were planted and they are not stopping. Right now the ' green ' desert can be seen in space. China also use seawater for farming.
Oh yeah, for sure! I was thinking about that. Clarify water source/usage/responsibility by demonstrating our cultural practices...by bringing up herbicides. I think it's great though, let those comments come in and I can explain it. I actually have a herbicide episode from a couple years ago locked and loaded: th-cam.com/video/aIr17Wd-raI/w-d-xo.html -Matthew
I really don't understand the hate toward farmers these days. The same people complaining about farmers Are the people that think food comes from grocery stores. Keep up the good work I know how hard it is. Our family has been farming in Colorado and feeding the world for a 100 years.
Excellent video. These critics have no idea how things work in life. They think food comes to their table from stores or factories. But then again, if it wasn’t for them, you probably wouldn’t make this video to educate them and the rest of us on rice farming. Thanks
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
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
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!
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 !
it always angers me the misconceptions people have about our usage of water while growing rice, that water would never be used for human consumption the flooding of rice fields, while annoying to use growing the rice, is great for migratory birds. Its just southern cidiots that drain californias water in their waste of water for watering lawns and lower grade water, that we get the blame for thanks for the video on this
Arm-chair famers! That's hilarious. I suppose that points to a good thing though. More and more the general public, non-farmers are interested in watching/learning about farming. -M.
I'm thinking they are getting confused and believe the land claims still work like in the film Far & Away. Some also don't appreciate inflation and see prices people paid decades ago and compare it directly at face value today.
Our family pioneered rice farming in California, in the Willows/Artois area. Baker Bros land and stock co. My Grandfather and his Brothers worked with the Nolta Bros, out of Willows, to develop seeding with airplanes. Keep up the great work you are doing 👍
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.
Thanks for the video. Can the fields that get left out due to late May rains be flooded with excess water from the reservoirs and used for wildlife habitat until the next planting season? That way, both the excess water and fields get utilized.
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
I love how you broke that comment down and explained each section of it to the ignorant! Sadly they will probably just keep sipping from their bottled water and flip their head while whining "Whatever". Love the vids man, keep it up!
Thank you Matt and all the other rice farmers supporting the USA 🇺🇸. Seams as all us farmers are getting some sort of flack for anything these days by keyboard warriors that can’t seem to do actual research. Thanks for sharing. Been missing your vids sir. Looking for the next one already. 2 thumbs up 👍
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.
Part of the reason Rice Farming TV exists is to educate, and you're doing it masterfully Matt. Keep doing it.
Matt, gracefully responding to ignorance. Bravo!
Thank you, brother.
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 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?
You can't fix stupid, but sometimes you can fix ignorance. Excellent rebuttal to those ignorant comments.
Wishing you and yours continued success.
HATERS will be HATERS! I am glad you made this video to educate the uneducated people about agriculture.
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🙏🙏
I love a good agricultural rant. This one was informative and edifying.
I came here to find out how mechanized farming was possible and learned more than I bargained for ... thank you for the info and feeding us.
I used to be critical when I first found your channel. So I decided to watch and learn and see how it works.
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.....
Good job explaining to the uninformed, Their comments are exactly why we need more farmers telling our stories.Keep up the good work .
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
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'.
Great video that truly explains the real perspective and benefits of rice farming. As a livestock rancher I hear the same ignorant arguments too, it is more efficient to eat plant based foods and so forth. The only problem with that mentality is that the land I graze for livestock is not good for farming, it has too many elevation changes and in farming that would allow too much soil erosion and it is just poor quality soil. Yet I can let it grow native fauna and graze sheep on it and completely utilize it while preserving and protecting the local environment and creeks all while providing a quality meat product that other wise would have been wasted space.
I'm glad you addressed these issues, Matthew. Your videos are always as educational as they are informative.
Wow, call me ignorant, but I need to tell you that I thought America only import rice from Asia. Anyway, I went to Costco yesterday to buy rice. Guess what did first, checked where it came from, and was surprised that it was actually grown right here in our own country, I couldn't believe it!!! Thanks for this video, I'm totally assured that I am eating rice grown from America, not imported from other countries. Thank you for this great video, it's very informative. Our students should watch all your videos. God bless you all rice farmers, you're great!
My grandfather used to have rice fields,but he did everything by himself, it's not easy, however ,the rice taste the best, because bwe have our own machine at home, so we all excited about every year's new harvest
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.
As a child of a rice farmer family, I enjoy watching your videos. Greetings from Turkey.
Perfect explanation. Hard work and efficient use of resources the key to rice farming( any farming). Support from a organic rice farmer from India.
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.
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.
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!
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
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 was educated and I liked the video.
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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.
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.
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.
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!
Matt, the people who leave comments like that are the reason you have to put a disclaimer on your store that says "truck not included" when showing your magnetic sticker for sale.
There is a term used in marketing; "you have to assume you're selling to the wit-less boob". The same reason there are warning stickers on lawn mowers telling the operator to not stick their hands into the blade while it's running.
This is by far my most favourite channel on TH-cam. Never knew how rice was grown but now I know. Greetings from South Africa
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.
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.
I've been farming for over 17years now, rice will survive in any climate. I am young farmer, I'd experienced a lot in terms of rice farming. Drought is more productive than rainy season. Base on my experience here in the Philippines.
08:04 I'm reminded of the "amber waves of grain" verse in one of the US' many unofficial national anthems, although in this case it's more like, "amber waves of *recordscratch* ... rice‽"
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
Excellent video!
You said it. This guy's good and he had an great script.
Maybe he could give you his excess water :)
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.
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.
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 :)
wow i live in SOUTH EAST ASIA.. so i eat rice almost everyday, Never grow i just buy at shop... :)) by way awesome Video and THANK YOU you make Growing rice AWESOME COOL!
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.
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.
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 !
Thanks for the hard debunking. Reading those comments hurt (partly because of all the face palms). A few more details:
-I don't think people understand how much California is a flood plain. The central valley used to become an ENTIRE SEA where you could take a SHIP from NorCal to SoCal in the valley. Having the water just dammed up and levy is NOT normal for the environment. When non-Natives started going there, they noticed that the flood debris was in the trees. The Chinese community in the 1800s had to build their traditional stilt houses to avoid flooding. Sacramento had to be jacked upwards. The water can't just stay between the levies. It HAS to go somewhere.
-Desert doesn't mean no rain. A desert can have lots of rain, it just loses that water quickly. You know what technology was developed to keep water in? Rice paddies.
-California is predicted to get dryer, not from lack of precipation, but lack of snow melt. Instead of having a somewhat steady source of water, that water is going to come down as rain that needs to be captured somehow. You know how people catch water in Asia? Take a guess. 😁
Not saying that the agriculture industry doesn't waste water, but people need to stop judging CA for feeding them. There's so many other issues to judge CA on. 😂 Stop creating demand for the problematic food if you don't like the ag.
Rice farming is hard but you have knowledge and modern equipment ,wish we could have affordable machinaries in odisha❤
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 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.
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
Non Californians loves trashing and bashing California, yet they sure love their fresh fruits and vegetables in their local grocery stores. I’m a long haul trucker and has been for 16 years now after serving 12 years in the Army. Ive traveled around the country including Canada delivering fruits and vegetables. When I heard comments about negative things in California, I would ask these individuals where do they buy their vegetables and fruits and if they enjoy their vegetables and fruits year round not just seasonal. They don’t have a clue. Thank you so much for educating these ignorant people. That is if they want to be educated. Ignorance is a very expensive price to pay.
greetings and success of farmers from South Sumatra Indonesia. 🇲🇨🇲🇨 May the farmers' crops be bountiful and the farmers will be blessed, will have an abundant age and health amen🤲🤲👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾👩🌾
l purchase short graim rice from Caliform here in Germany ,please keep it up.
those people have no idea about what they are talking and importance of farming. nice to see so many viewers supporting matt
Thanks Jenna! I appreciate the words of encouragement and support.
-M.
@@Ricefarmingtv you are most welcome bro
Thank you very much for your hard work and keep growing rice. I love rice so much don'tlisten to complainer.
Haters gonna hate! Keep up the great work, farmers are the backbone of America yall put food on our plates!
You are one of the best spokesmen for agriculture that I have seen. Keep up this valuable work! Many 👍👍👍👍👍😎
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.
i hope we have this kind of technologies in the Philippines. Rice farming in California is surprisingly efficient.. I love it :)
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.
Im from Asia and to see Western people plant rice in a desert is mesmerizing to say the least. Keep it up!
Making all California rice growers proud I’m sure. Keep up the great work 👍
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!!
bastante detallada la explicación muy edificante la verdad , una bonita manera de cerrar bocazas, saludos
I worked (past tense) for a tractor company. What most people know about California is what they get from bad television. That bad television includes the news. Most people think California is all Bay Area, L.A., or Orange County. They have no idea that California is the one of the largest diary producers or rice producers. Most people don't know that California has generations of people that grow grapes, peaches, oranges, garlic, rice, celery, almonds, walnuts, tomatoes, and the that list goes just goes on and on. And those farmers produce those crops without a government subsidy. Further agriculture has been and continues to be one of the largest industries in California. But most people just see Hollywood and Silicon Valley when they think of California. California is the 9th largest economy in the world because economically and industrially, it is diverse.
Beautiful crop. I live in Thailand and enjoy driving past the rice fields near my wife's hometown.
The trolls just make it that much easier to explain how rice farming works and be able to pick on the trolls at the same time.
Thank you for the update on how your crops are doing. I was thinking about how things were going with your rice crops the other day.
Those comments aren't coming from trolls, those come from Progressives (sic). They should be called RE-gressives. They are the new Democrats, the AOC's and her so-called Squad. Really they are just socialists. And ignorant to boot.
"This country will never be a socialist country". Best quote of the year!
@@SteveMillerhuntingforfood i agree with you on who they are but, i just call them troll because that is what they are lol.
Have good day; Scruffy out.
I’m a Laotian American and I approve domestic rice agricultural!! 🌾🌾🌾
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.
WOW! I'M FROM PHILIPPINES. RICE IS OUR STAPLE FOOD BUT I'M SHOCKED RICEFIELDS IN USA IS AWESOME!!!
Yup...Phil average yield is about 4.5T/Hect....can you believe it gets to 12T/hct or so in Australia and California ? - sooo far to go.
@@Paper-and-dragons are you Filipino?
@@anyaforger8409 Nope....just the wife and kids :)
@@Paper-and-dragons Wrong!
Just your wife is Phil. We can't let your kids run out and claim another country now.... lol
Nice! Keep it up!
China started desert farming and reforestation 40 years ago, while many countries criticized them. Over the years, 20 billion trees were planted and they are not stopping. Right now the ' green ' desert can be seen in space. China also use seawater for farming.
Matt. This is your best video yet.
Sounds like we’ve had similar growing seasons so far, Sligar. We are actually quite dry now, which is exactly what we didn’t want.
i certainly got educated a bit more on rice farming, as well as cali's water problems. well explained and intresting to listen to.
Next we will see “YOUR PUTTING PESTICIDES IN WATER THAT FLOWS TO CITIES😡😡😡” comments😂😂. Love what your doing👍🏻👍🏻
Oh yeah, for sure! I was thinking about that. Clarify water source/usage/responsibility by demonstrating our cultural practices...by bringing up herbicides. I think it's great though, let those comments come in and I can explain it. I actually have a herbicide episode from a couple years ago locked and loaded:
th-cam.com/video/aIr17Wd-raI/w-d-xo.html
-Matthew
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I really don't understand the hate toward farmers these days. The same people complaining about farmers Are the people that think food comes from grocery stores. Keep up the good work I know how hard it is. Our family has been farming in Colorado and feeding the world for a 100 years.
Excellent video. These critics have no idea how things work in life. They think food comes to their table from stores or factories. But then again, if it wasn’t for them, you probably wouldn’t make this video to educate them and the rest of us on rice farming.
Thanks
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
UC Davis grad student here. I drive up north to do field work and I always enjoy looking at the rice fields!
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
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!
Just keep doing what you guys do best is farm Rica...
Thank you, Chris!
-M.
Bro... I only eat rice grow in California. Love supporting our agriculture in California...
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 !
Good to see you back. Thanks for all the information. Gotta love the people out there who know everything.
it always angers me the misconceptions people have about our usage of water while growing rice, that water would never be used for human consumption the flooding of rice fields, while annoying to use growing the rice, is great for migratory birds. Its just southern cidiots that drain californias water in their waste of water for watering lawns and lower grade water, that we get the blame for thanks for the video on this
Thanks for the education :) it's funny listening to "Arm-chair farmers" LOL. Keep up the great content
Arm-chair famers! That's hilarious. I suppose that points to a good thing though. More and more the general public, non-farmers are interested in watching/learning about farming.
-M.
Keep on Farming Rice, I support you!
How do I sign up for this Free Land??
Not sure! But if you find out, Darin...let me know! Jeez.
-M.
I'm thinking they are getting confused and believe the land claims still work like in the film Far & Away.
Some also don't appreciate inflation and see prices people paid decades ago and compare it directly at face value today.
@@Ricefarmingtv So I have to stay in SW Kansas and farm then!
You doing marvelous work keep it up
Right??? Sign me up 😆
Our family pioneered rice farming in California, in the Willows/Artois area. Baker Bros land and stock co. My Grandfather and his Brothers worked with the Nolta Bros, out of Willows, to develop seeding with airplanes.
Keep up the great work you are doing 👍
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.
Live in Yuba County. The people who made those comments have never been here I guess. Anyways thanks for the video and your hard work
Hey Jacob, nice you hear from a Yuba City resident. Thank you for the message!
-Matthew
BRAVO!!!!well spoken matt keep educating those poor ignorant fools who complain about farms thanks
Awesome -love the work around on draining the water! Way to go Pops!
Thanks for the video. Can the fields that get left out due to late May rains be flooded with excess water from the reservoirs and used for wildlife habitat until the next planting season? That way, both the excess water and fields get utilized.
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
I love how you broke that comment down and explained each section of it to the ignorant! Sadly they will probably just keep sipping from their bottled water and flip their head while whining "Whatever". Love the vids man, keep it up!
Thank you Matt and all the other rice farmers supporting the USA 🇺🇸. Seams as all us farmers are getting some sort of flack for anything these days by keyboard warriors that can’t seem to do actual research. Thanks for sharing. Been missing your vids sir. Looking for the next one already. 2 thumbs up 👍