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This is an integrated thematic unit for grades 4-6 in which students discover personal connections to rice.  Rice is one of California's most important crops, not only as food for human use, but rice also provides habitat and high quality food for wildlife, both native and waterfowl migrating along the Pacific Flyway.  Click below to go to our online resource store to order your copy today!
 

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What, exactly, is "corporate agriculture"? Is it a large, faceless entity with little regard for people or the environment? Not likely. Click Here or listen to the radio to meet one of California's "corporate" farmers.

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Meet Kevin and Allison Hurd and learn how their family farm represents the thousands of "corporate" farms that make up the backbone of California agriculture.