California State Water Resources Control Board

The, it, it was originally we need to save the, the...

Just last month, the California Water Control Board took the last of their comments from stakeholders.

They have expanded the stakeholders now to be 50 different entities.

An entity would be like an Indian reservation.

Uh, we pushed back on...

You know, when Brown was, was governor on the State Water Board, he actually joined in a letter.

And as well at the time, Governor Elect Newsom s- signed a letter with us at f- California Farm Bureau asking the State Water Board to, uh, slow down.

And we had promised that we will voluntarily come to the table and see what we can do in terms of timely release of water, not just mass bulk water shipments to the ocean.

But, you know, we're seeing now the science is more dependent on timing of those flows-

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... particularly when you're talking about the young, you know, fry salmon and, and when they're, when they need it the most.

And the State Water Board came back and said no.

So it's the same here.

There's an administrative state, 200 plus agencies, the California Air Resources Board, the Coastal Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Pest- Board of Pesticide Regulator.

I mean, endless different groups, uh, State Board of Education, et cetera.

Hundreds of these groups.

Right now, they're trying to change the flow rules on the Sacramento River so they can pump more water out when salmon are migrating through, and we're not going to let that happen.

And later this month, on October 28th to the 30th, the State Water Resource Control Board is going to be meeting up in SAC, and we're going to be reaching out to supporters to come out and speak against the voluntary agreements.

They're trying to for years now, shoved down our throat these so-called voluntary agreements where the farmers just volunteer to give us water, and we're going to trust them to come on through for us.

It's not going to happen.

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And the State Water Board just cut their water rights in half, and we'd already cut the project in half once.

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So now we're gonna pay $10 billion for a project that was 25% of what it started, and we're not getting any closer to the nine-million-acre feet.

They're, they're pretty low right now, but, um, hopefully we'll see a turnaround in the markets.

State Water Quality Board, Water Control Board is already coming, just passed a new regulation that they're gonna start cracking down on, even harder on these dairies and on how much nitrogen and, um, manure water we can put on these fields.

And Jason Giannelli, you run a lot of acres.

Tell me, how many acres do you do, especially for the dairy feed?