Newsletter

YES FARMERS ARE ESSENTIAL! These past few weeks we have added a new word to our everyday vocabulary, essential. Most of us in the farming community understand that word essential, but a whole new generation of people are learning the meaning the hard way.

Family Water Alliance Awarded Grant for Llano Seco / M & T Ranch Project

Chico, CA  – The Llano Seco / M & T Ranch Cone Fish Screen project was selected by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for Proposition 1 funding.  The funding was awarded to Family Water Alliance (FWA) who has screened over 40 diversions throughout the Sacramento and Central Valley over the past two decades.

2019 Annual Dinner a Success - A record crowd gathered in November for the annual Hot Cajun Night dinner.

Modoc Hosts Sheepdog Nationals, Alasdair MacRae Crowned Champion - This year the National Sheepdog
Trials were held in Modoc County near Alturas. Where the finest most talented sheep dogs compete to move sheep from one field to another through a complicated set of moves that include the separation of a specific sheep from the herd...

Fight To Save Local Farmland Gets Personal - grow to a proposed power transmission line that would carve a wide and destructive path through productive agricultural land in Northern California, threatening long-time farming families and the businesses and communities that both depend upon and support them...

The Sites Project is a proposed 1.8 million acre-foot offstream reservoir in California’s largest watershed. This innovative and environmentally-focused project, located in Colusa County, will greatly increase the reliability of statewide water supplies for environmental, agricultural and urban uses...