Local Growers
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Booth Ranches
Booth Ranches, LLC is a family owned, fully integrated grower, packer and shipper of premium fresh citrus. They have been growing citrus for more than 50 years in the San Joaquin valley, and packing at two packinghouses near the headquarters in Orange Cove, California.
The late Otis Booth was a business executive when he inherited a 40-acre citrus grove in 1950. According to Loren Booth, Otis Booth’s daughter and current owner of the citrus company, that original grove is known simply as Ranch 40. Today, Ranch 40 is a small slice of the 8,500 acres of Booth Ranch navels, valencias and specialty citrus in the San Joaquin Valley from Fresno County south into Kern County.
As his investments skyrocketed Otis Booth’s wealth into the Forbes 400, oranges became a passion. “Land and a growing business and farming on the land is something rather more tangible than a securities portfolio,” Booth told Forbes magazine in 2005.
As some growers switched to other commodities, Booth remained committed to citrus, though he did add a cattle ranch in 1971. Adding acreage and marketing fruit grown only by the company helped make it a truly independent grower-shipper.
