California Growers Association
The California Growers Association was a grower's cooperative canner in Southern California founded by Vernon Campbell. The cooperative started in Ontario in 1915, opened a branch in Hemet the next year, and followed with canneries in Falbrook, Elsinore, and Riverside in 1919[1].
In the hearings over changing the packer's consent decree, a letter from Edmund Nutting Richmond characterized Campbell as "a promoter 100 per cent efficient", complaining the cooperatives had been failures. Campbell, in the hearing, declared that the cooperatives were doing well now, but the first couple years had been harsh. 1915 was a hard year for peaches and apricots -peaches ripened without demand, but bought as fruit falling from trees.
References
- ↑ In [Packers' Consent Decree: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 211, to Investigate Matters Concerning the Consent Decree Entered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the Case of the United States of America, Plaintiff, V. Swift & Co. Et Al., Defendants.] U. S. Senate, March 23 and April 21, 1922.