Year in and year out rice is the number one crop in Yuba County and it’s something we at the Marysville Future Farmers of America are quite proud of. To help the rest of California know what rice means to our area, our group designed and built this year’s county exhibit.
We have built the Yuba County exhibit each year since 1996 as a community service product to highlight all that our county has to offer. A field trip to Schohr Farms just north of our county provided chapter advisor Bonnie Magill all of the inspiration needed for this year’s exhibit.
FFA students painted the mural, constructed the walls and picket fence, and helped design the rice trivia questions and overall display. The slimiest yet most enjoyable job was going out barefoot in the mud and digging up live rice plants from Mathews family farm and putting them in pans for the display.
The floor of the exhibit is covered in rice hulls for authenticity! Donations of rice samples, the hulls and the transplanted live rice were donated by Mathews Dryer in Yuba County. Additional rice samples were donated by Montna Farms in Sutter County. There are maps and other materials from the California Rice Commission. Topping it all off is a toy combine on display, which was donated by Valley Truck and Tractor in Yuba City.
The exhibit can be seen at the California State Fair in the Counties Building (Building A/B) through July 29. Come visit and learn about a big part of our economy … and the entire state as well.
Marysville FFA Alumna Margery Magill recently was awarded the national organization's highest honor, the American Degree. This third-year student at U.C. Davis is majoring in International Agricultural Development. This spring, she was among a dozen U.S. students that traveled to Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore to study international grain marketing, trade and global agriculture. 
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