The ongoing drought has cut rice acreage in the Sacramento Valley in half. Normally the largest rice-growing region in California, the Sacramento Valley produces hundreds of millions of dollars worth of rice each year. However, 2022 has been anything but normal. Because of severe drought and water
Drought and water shortages in 2022 have meant rice growers have only planted half as much of the grain as usual in the Sacramento Valley, normally the largest rice-growing region in California.Normally the largest rice-growing region in California, the Sacramento Valley produces hundreds of millions of dollars worth of rice each year. However, 2022 has been anything but normal. Because of severe drought and water shortages, rice growers have only planted half as much of the grain as usual.
It’s a dramatic scale of the change that is clearly visible from space. The right side of the image pair below shows a major rice-producing area east of Willows on September 16, 2022; the left side shows the same area on September 4, 2021. Tens of thousands of acres of farmland that would normally be green as farmers prepare for harvest were instead brown and idle in 2022. Both natural-color satellite images were acquired by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8.
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