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2. Calavo Growers - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Limoneira - Wikipedia

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   Limoneira (Portuguese for "Lemon Tree") is a public limited agribusiness and real estate development company based in Santa Paula, California, United States. [3] The Company's operations mainly consist of production, sales and marketing of citrus and avocados. [4] The company's real estate holdings and vast water rights support three business ...

4. Hass avocado - Wikipedia

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   The Hass avocado is a variety of avocado with dark green, bumpy skin. It was first grown and sold by Southern California mail carrier and amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass, who also gave it his name. [1] The Hass avocado is a large-sized fruit [2] weighing 200 to 300 grams (7 to 10 oz). When ripe, the skin becomes a dark purplish-black and ...

5. Avocado imports from Mexico are blocked. What does that ... - AOL

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6. Rudolph Hass - Wikipedia

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   After reading a magazine article illustrating an avocado tree with dollar bills hanging from it in 1925, Hass used all the money he had, plus a loan from his sister, [3] Ida Hass, to buy a small acre and a half avocado grove at 430 West Road La Habra Heights, California. The trees were old Fuerte avocados with 2 or 3 Lyon as well as a few ...

7. Avocado - Wikipedia

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   The avocado, alligator pear or avocado pear (Persea americana) is an evergreen tree in the laurel family (Lauraceae). It is native to the Americas and was first domesticated in Mesoamerica more than 5,000 years ago. It was prized for its large and unusually oily fruit. [3]

8. California Avocado Commission - Wikipedia

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   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.

9. Bixby family - Wikipedia

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   The Bixby family is an American family that was heavily involved in the development of California ranches and real estate in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through various companies, they controlled at one time or another large swathes of California real estate, much of it derived from Mexican land grants.