 Rominger Brothers Farms hosted a legislative tour sponsored by the California Rangeland Trust. Attendees are pictured in front of a blooming safflower field north of Winters. State legislators and staff toured the farm, discussed issues pertaining to farmland preservation and enjoyed a luncheon inside a historic 19th Century barn. Attendees included staff with the American Farmland Trust, the California Farmland Trust, the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Yolo Land Trust and other conservation organizations.
 Sunflowers are blooming now, creating a beautiful viewscape for the public to enjoy. We grow this as an oilseed crop that will be produced into sunflower oil for human consumption.
 Spring rains replenish the underground aquifers and allow Rominger Brothers Farms to fill up the irrigation reservoir. This water will be used to irrigate the tomato crop during the growing season.
 Rominger Trails is an agritourism operation offered by Rominger Brothers Farms. People who own horses may bring their horses out and ride on more than 2,000 acres of rangeland while enjoying the scenic beauty of the oak woodlands.
 Our barley crop grows in a field at the base of the Coast Range. In California, barley is primarily produced for livestock feed as well as malting grains for beer breweries and whiskey distilleries.
 Sheep and beef cattle graze on our farm during the winter months when the grass is green. During our hot, dry summers when the grass turns brown, the livestock are moved to higher elevations in the mountains where the weather is cooler and there is plenty of forage growth available.
 Canada greese are some of the migratory bird species that inhabit our farm. They are both resident birds in the Sacramento Valley as well as migratorial, flying to and from Canada. The birds just took off from a livestock reservoir that we established in our rangeland, which attracts many bird species that travel along the Pacific Flyway.
 In an effort to create wildlife habitat and prevent soil erosion on our farm, native plants such as coyote brush and milkweed were installed this winter. This planting is in a riparian area where water flows between two hills.
 The moon was shining behind the clouds before daybreak, creating this stunning westward view from our farm. The warm, dry weather of the past few days is about to change as a storm system in the Pacific Ocean moves in. This photo depicts the calm before the storm.
 A turkey vulture, perched on a pole overlooking Rominger Brothers Farms, spreads its wings to warm up in the sunlight. Birds "sunbathe" to perform several important functions, such as drying their feathers after getting wet, regulating body temperature and killing parasites. It's not hard to see why these scavenger birds look spooky.
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