[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22100]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



      JIMMIE ICARDO, KERN COUNTY FAIR'S AGRICULTURIST OF THE YEAR

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                         HON. WILLIAM M. THOMAS

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 21, 1999

  Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, September 23rd the 1999 Kern 
County Fair will name Mr. Jimmie Icardo as the Fair's 1999 
Agriculturist of the Year. Jimmie Icardo's contributions to Kern County 
agriculture have helped make California farming the competitor it is 
today.
  When you look at agriculture across the United States, California's 
ability to turn out and export quality crops is exemplary. It is 
through the efforts of Kern County farmers like Jimmie Icardo and the 
quality goods they have consistently introduced into the market place 
that California is now one of the world's foremost suppliers of quality 
produce.
  Jimmie Icardo represents a generation of farmers who sought to put 
out the best product they could. Successful in real estate, oil and gas 
and other ventures, Jimmie remains first and foremost a farmer. He did 
want to be the best farmer he could and his long standing reputation 
for quality melons, cotton, carrots and other produce says he achieved 
that goal. His work, along with the work of other farmers who also 
sought to be the best at the business, has given Kern County 
agriculture the reputation for quality the state enjoys today 
throughout the world.

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