Covid-19 roils CA farmers and ranchers. Rice industry raises salmon. Chick frenzy.

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to roil California agriculture. The beef, dairy, poultry, fruit and vegetable sectors all have their tales of concerns and setbacks. We have the details. Farmers and fishermen haven’t been the best of partners when it comes to divvying up California water supplies. But the state’s rice industry is spearheading an attempt to increase the number of wild salmon…by using fallowed, waterlogged Sacramento Valley rice fields in the winter. We have that story. Farmers can, and are, adapting to recent lurches in the state’s food processing and delivery systems. We hear about what one Davis-based group of farming veterans is doing to stay afloat. All that, upcoming weather, crop reports, and more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.