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Calavo Growers, Inc., was founded on January 21, 1924, as the California Avocado Growers' Exchange. Due to overwhelming interest in the avocado, many California growers had planted avocado seeds that had originated in Mexico. Although slow to mature, by 1923 those avocado trees were producing a large enough crop to be marketed.
First, in the earlier appeal, Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Jacobsen, [10] the Court had held that, because of the Florida growers' allegations that California officials had consistently condemned Florida avocados as unfit for sale in California, "thus requiring [the Florida growers]—to prevent destruction and complete loss of their ...
In the 1980s there was a boom in avocado planting in California, mostly by small, semi-professional growers. [1] Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the Commission lobbied to prevent imports of fresh avocados from Mexico, which has a much larger avocado industry and lower labor, water, and land costs.
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California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
The California Avocado Society is a non-profit organization based in Southern California that provides access to information on cultural, marketing, research and governmental issues for growers in the business of raising avocados.
The Mountain Fire burned about a quarter of Ventura county's avocado harvest. The county is the number one producer of the fruit in the state.
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