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Weather Worries Increase for California Rice Growers.

By Mike Lee, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 3--As a soggy April gives way to a moist May, Northern California farmers are left to wait out what promises to be another wet weekend.

Weather-related problems are percolating around farm country, but they are perhaps most maddening for rice growers in the Sacramento Valley who normally would have planted more than 50,000 acres in Yuba and Sutter counties by now.

Rice farmers need a few inches of water on their fields to grow a crop, but they also need several d

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