CSPAN3 Agriculture In Chico California April 2, 2017
Gold rush in the 1850s. Wereirst people here prospectors. My family came to this county were chico is a 1950. The kids will be six generation. Nvolved in agriculture grants started to hew into more diversity will post that, probably the biggest change we saw suddenly started to create irrigation systems. In the early 1900s we started more control and management for flood and irrigation and agriculture. We saw the shift, particularly when rice came, we were one of the first places in the state that was grown successfully, just south of chico 1050 miles. That changed the agricultural economy. We...