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Emergent Ventures
Distance: 23.8 Mi105 Mercy Ave
95340-8320 Merced -
Ace Armature & Motor Shops Inc
Distance: 40.4 Mi529 North Orange Street
95203 Stockton -
Central Valley Business Journal, LLC
Distance: 43.1 Mi4512 Feather River Dr Ste E
95219 Stockton -
Fat Spaniel Technologies
Distance: 58.7 MiBldg 2 W Santa Clara St Fl 5
95113 San Jose -
Deeya Energy Inc.
Distance: 58.8 Mi48611 Warm Springs Blvd
94539-7782 Fremont
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Description
A century ago, a California farmer named Henry Stirring opened a channel and let water from an irrigation canal flow onto his newly planted corn crop. An event that today barely merits a fleeting thought, it was a momentous occasion in 1900 that attracted droves of people to Stirrings' Stanislaus County farm to witness history in the making.On that pleasant day in the middle of March, Stirring's name was etched into the annals of history as the first grower in the state to receive water supplied by California's very first publicly owned irrigation district. The upstart outfit with huge aspirations was none other than the Turlock Irrigation District.The introduction of irrigation in 1900 paved the way for the production of a smorgasbord of high value crops to a semi-arid region of the Northern San Joaquin Valley that until then was limited to vast tracts of wheat and other dry land farm crops that could be raised to maturity with what Mother Nature provided during the spring and early summer.