From fuel delivery to full-time farming
The 1987 Senior Farmer Floyd Nelson, like his father, had a Union Oil distributorship delivering fuel to farmers and ranchers on the west
News
Excerpts of news published in The Madera Tribune newspaper.
Cattle were his children
The 2008 Senior Farmer Bill McKinney and his wife Lillian never had children of their own, but they adopted several four-legged calves an
Chowchilla farmer's award-worthy efforts
The 1988 Senior Farmer Lionel Rogers was an award-winning farmer.
Concern for farmworkers prompts grower to donate land
When 1985 Senior Farmer Aubrey K. Baker worried migrant farmworkers were living in substandard housing, he took action.
Lifelong farmer was Old Timers Day king
Born in rural Madera in 1911, 1986 Senior Farmer Everett Garner was a lifelong farmer who grew grain, cotton, hay and raised cattle.
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