David Richter Sutter County farmer
Our water allo- cation allowed us to raise 850 acres of rice, which is about the same as we raised last year. We have a field or two that isn’t perfect, but
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the stands look pretty good. The heat really did a number on my lima beans. I just don’t have the stands. When it gets so hot, lots of things start going awry, especially when they’re coming out of the ground. Our sunflowers look good. Everything came up. We had water and we pre-irrigat- ed everything. We’ve had a lot of hot days and we always worry about pollination when it gets real hot. On processing tomatoes, we used 100% transplants, just because seeds aren’t plen- tiful. Transplanting season was interesting. We had to stop several times because of the heat and the wind. We also grow corn for grain. It’s for human consumption, and it’s white corn. We’re growing less corn this year because we’ve gone up in tomatoes lately and we’ve gone up on rice. We started cutting back on corn because it was such a low price and we have reduced the size of our farm just because we’re getting older. I had a little wheat this year and we’re harvesting it right now. Wheat yields have been down because of the drought. I was able to irrigate it. We’re having to spray for thrips, the vector for spotted wilt. We have detected it in some plants, and we’re working with farm advisors. It hasn’t been widespread, but it’s caused us to spray for thrips. Mike Jani MendocinoCounty forester As we’ve seen
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got going on throughout the entire lumber business, not just the redwood business. It’s a factor of having the coronavirus put the fear of God in all of us and businesses. Everybody tried to make adjustments with the idea that there was going to be less demand. Lo and behold, in the midst of the pandemic, there was more demand for lum- ber than many of us have ever seen before. Our mills and the inventories have just been wildly fluctuating. Prices ran up way high and now prices are starting to come down
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