We have had two days here now looking at various agribusinesses. Some of the more interesting were a tomatoes paste plant and today we had ours eyes opened when we meet with Gary Lindley who is a district manager for J.G Boswell who are the company who own Auscott in Australia.
He showed us around his section that he looks after, 24,000 acres of irrigation which is part of 100,000 acres at Corcoran in California.
Tomorrow we are meeting with some Rabo bank people first thing and then onto a couple of other appointments.
The Photos show me beside a bale of Pima Cotton, J.G.Boswell are only growing Pima now at Corcoran and will also grow around 15,000 acres of tomatoes this year.
Water is a problem here as well as in Australia and they are only planting around half of their irrigatable area in 09 due to water shortages.
The other Photo is of their cotton pickers, I asked Gary how many were in the row and he said they have 60 of their own and most of them were there lined up in the yard.
One useless peice of information is that Charles Manson the serial killer is in a prison that is over the fence from the tomatoes crop behind where the cotton pickers are.
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