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John Rominger makes his debut as The Wildlife Guy with a close look at a wild animal that he found on our farm: a Pacific ringneck snake.
 Students from the Culinary Institute of America visited Rominger Brothers Farms for a farm tour. They are attending the CIA in Hyde Park, New York, and spending three months at the CIA campus in St. Helena, California, studying aspects of the farm-to-table movement. Bruce Rominger, right, hosted the group and led a detailed discussion about California food production.
 The sun rises over the ewes and lambs as they graze the forage on the back forty.
 Our wheat crop is looking great as it starts heading out. This crop will be harvested then milled into flour.
Tomato seedlings are going into the ground at Rominger Brothers Farms as planting season gets underway in Northern California. These are canning tomatoes that are processed into tomato soup, pizza sauce and other delicious foods.
It's the time of year when the sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms get their wool sheared. Clockwise from upper left, wooly sheep are lined up to enter the sheep-shearing trailer. The shearing crew works quickly and efficiently to shear all the sheep. A freshly sheared Rambouillet sheep is ready to rejoin the flock. Ernie Fairchild, owner of the Buhl, Idaho-based Fairchildshearing LLC, and his crew travel throughout a half-dozen Western states to shear commercial sheep flocks and load up the fleeces for processing. The wool shorn from sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms will be milled at the Oregon-based Pendleton Woolen Mills and made into shirts, blankets and other wool products.
German farmers visited Rominger Brothers Farms where they learned about almond production from grower Bruce Rominger. During their visit, which was sponsored by Yolo 365 Tours, a truckload of sheep was delivered, and the group watched livestock producer John Oligary and his crew unload the flock at the Rominger ranch to graze on the grass-covered foothills.
 As this year's growing season gets underway at Rominger Brothers Farms, a crop duster applies fertilizer to a winter wheat field near the Coast Range Mountains.
Bruce Rominger discusses climate change issues that farmers face in this video produced by the Woodland, California-based Center for Land-Based Learning. This video, which is part of the "Farming for Our Future" series, is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.  The rice harvest ended this week. Rominger Rice had more than one combine harvester operating in the field near Knights Landing. In this video clip, Eric Willson operates the combine while Juan Carlos Vega drives the tractor pulling the bankout wagon, which is used to haul the rice out of the field. Ultimately, the rice gets hauled by trucks to the grain dryer prior to milling by Farmers Rice Cooperative.
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