The Farm Beat: It All Starts in the Nursery

I’ll be writing at length next week about Dave Wilson Nursery, which will be inducted Nov. 12 into the Stanislaus County Ag Hall of Fame. This company near Hickman is a major producer of fruit and nut trees for commercial growers. This is the third time in six years that the inductee will come from the nursery industry. Burchell Nursery did it in 2007, fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger in 2004. This reflect the special place that the county holds in agriculture. Not only does it produce a lot of fruits and nuts; it produces a lot of the trees that produce these crops in California and beyond. It’s a combination of having the right climate for nursery production and some pretty savvy people working in this field.