Calcot, Ltd.

Calcot, Ltd.

California’s first commercial cotton sprouted in 1862 in what would later become Kern County (where Calcot is headquartered today), but the San Joaquin Valley didn’t earn its reputation as a producer of “white gold” until the next century, after World War I, when the federal government wanted extra long staple cotton for military applications.

The homegrown group began as the San Joaquin Cotton Growers in Delano in 1927 and has been headquartered in Bakersfield since 1931. The co-op grew out of a Delano grower’s frustration over the middlemen in the cotton industry.In 1926, Capt. Frank E. Green had a lunch meeting in a Delano hotel, where he pitched the idea of a growers’ cooperative to his peers. The grape and cotton farmer had been mulling the idea since 1922, when the Capper-Volstead Act passed, allowing farmers to form cooperative groups without violating anti-trust laws.

Contact Details

Office Address

Calcot, Ltd.
1900 E. Brundage Ln.
Bakersfield, CA, USA 93307
Phone: (661) 327-5961
Fax: (661) 861-9870

Executives

Chairman

Charles A. (Charlie) Fanucchi

President and CEO

Jarral Neeper

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