
Rice farmer Charley Mathews Jr. stands next to a field in Yuba County that has been dry-seeded, as an agricultural airplane working another nearby field flies overhead. Favorable weather has kept the Sacramento Valley rice planting season on time this spring.
Photo/Ching Lee

Rice farmer Charley Mathews Jr. applies aqua ammonia to a field in Yuba County in preparation for planting.
Photo/Ching Lee