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California Pistachio Boom Pistachios are hand sorted at the Wonderful Pistachios & Almonds processing plant in Lost Hills, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Kevin Assemi, a member of one of the region’s most prosperous business families, is asking a Fresno County judge to block the potential sale of the family’s farming properties, valued at an ...
The farming operation may be forced to sell more than 50,000 acres of farmland.
California has more certified organic farms than any other state. In 2016, more than a million acres in the state were certified organic. [188] CA grows 90% or more of the U.S. production of Organic almonds, artichokes, avocados, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, dates, figs, grapes, strawberries, lemons, lettuce, plums, and walnuts. [189]
The Semi-Tropic Land and Water Company platted Rosena in 1887, but no construction occurred in the area until after the Fontana Development Company bought the land in 1903. The company made plans to build a farm on the property, and construction began in 1905; the Camp No. 1 house served as the farm's main headquarters and housed its managers.
In 1919, he bought 5845 acres of land outside Arvin in California's San Joaquin Valley. A year later, Di Giorgio founded Di Giorgio Fruit Co. His success came when he obtained water for the arid California land by drilling wells hundreds of feet deep. By 1929, just ten years after his original land purchase, Di Giorgio's company was the largest ...
A California businessman invested his savings in a pistachio farm. The return of Tulare Lake has left hundreds of his acres underwater. 'It's a disaster': California farmer faces ordeal as ...
Now, Wonderful grows between 15% and 20% of the U.S. pistachio crop, he said. Its pistachio orchards stretch across vast tracts of dust-filled farmland northwest of Los Angeles also lined with pomegranates and dairies. The trees are shaken each fall and the nuts hauled to a massive processing facility to be be prepped for sale.