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.

Thank you, brother.

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?

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i was landowner Alberta ; the 'muricans will likely just shoot the desert water.....

You said it. This guy's good and he had an great script.

Maybe he could give you his excess water :)

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.

Thanks a lot, Nick. Now the problem is getting those commenters to watch a video response. Good luck out there, brother. -M.

Thank you, Chris! -M.

Tom Collins I’ll drink to that

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.

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