Peak Wildlife Migration Time
It’s a great feeling, knowing that as a California Rice farmer you’re providing important habitat for migrating waterfowl.
Mike DeWit, along with his father Jack, grow rice in Sutter, Yolo and Sacramento Counties. Mike is a second-generation rice grower. He and his wife Trucie have two children, Jacob,20, who is severely autistic and living and going to a special school for autism in San Jose. Daughter Debra is a senior at Davis high School. He is a graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. While not farming, he enjoys hunting, fishing and spending time with his family. “I feel blessed to do what I do,” Mike said. “It’s not work if you love what you do for a living.”