Green Valley Pecan Company
The business that would become the Farmers Investment Co. (FICO) began in Ventura County, California in 1937 under the leadership of R. Keith Walden. Its first venture was a citrus nursery; from there it began growing citrus and, in the mid-1940s, diversified into the production of cereal grains, oil seed crops, cotton, sugar beets, vegetables, melons, potatoes, and alfalfa seed. In 1945 the business became known as FICO.
