This fund has now grown to $20 million that is used to promote and support research on the economics of California agriculture.

Foundation members and graduate students publish widely on topics relevant to California agriculture.

By almost invisible stages he has become one of the most important figures in California organic agriculture.

He read the works of Jack London and decided on a career in California agriculture.

An Urban Shift For California agriculture, the mid-20th century was a time of plenty.

That peon class, one soulless corporate farmer said (and Steinbeck noted this), was necessary to the survival of California agriculture.

Indeed, the cooperative has helped make almonds one of the hottest products in the food industry and a mainstay of California agriculture.

Argued that a proposed rate increase should leave the eastbound rates on perishable products to Eastern states unchanged to encourage the continued development of California agriculture.

"The diversity of California agriculture has saved the consumer in the past four years and may save us again," he said of the long drought.

Promote California agriculture and food products both at home and abroad.