J.G. Boswell Company

About J.G. Boswell Company

Founded in 1927, the J.G. Boswell Company is a privately held corporation that is engaged in agriculture and real estate. While the firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California, the center of agriculture is located in Corcoran, California. The following briefly describes the California Operations of the J.G. Boswell Company. The company is also involved in real estate and the cattle industry, and has operations in Australia. Ranching Division The J.G. Boswell Company has two ranches in the San Joaquin Valley. The ranches are located near Corcoran and Bakersfield, California. While the primary crops are cotton and tomatoes, and alfalfa hay, the ranches grow rotation crops of wheat, seed alfalfa, and safflower. Each ranch is equipped with its own repair facility. Each location has an administrative and management team. Processing Division The Boswell Company, in addition to growing crops, processes many of its commodities. In addition to ginning its own Pima cotton, the company crushes its cottonseed and safflower into by-products of oil, meal and hulls, which are feed and food ingredients. The Boswell Company produces seed that has been cleaned and treated for planting. The Company owns two tomato processing plants located in Buttonwillow, CA and Corcoran, CA, that process field-run tomatoes into tomato paste.