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Irion and Krauter have devoted a lifetime to agriculture, focusing much of their efforts on improving fertility practices in California’s highly diversified agriculture.

Irion graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 with a bachelor’s degree in organic chemistry and then returned to the family’s olive farm in Tulare County. In 1974 he took over as manager of Murrieta Farms, a 10,000-acre operation on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley. There he not only successfully farmed cotton, tomatoes, alfalfa, and wheat, but participated in many research efforts with the University of California and USDA/ARS. Irion was involved in many on-farm research projects at Murrieta that have had a long-lasting impact on row crop farming.

He joined Actagro Inc. 26 years ago as a research agronomist working with growers on fertility and other agronomic programs. “Clyde was a large part of Actagro’s success, not only promoting the proper use of nutritional programs, but also developing the science behind Actagro’s products,” said Actagro President Carl Ueland.

Source: Western Farm Press

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