100 Years of Boswell

Auscott Macquarie team in 1973

Back in the United States, the expansion continued. In 1965, the Boston Ranch Company purchased the Yokohl Valley property near Exeter. Two years later, they went even bigger, acquiring a Bureau of Land Management lease in Pineville, Oregon. These properties, along with more leased land near Porterville, were used for cow-calf operations and raising feeders for the Corcoran feedlot. In 1966, Boswell brought the Santa Fe Ranch back into the family, along with neighboring properties once sold to Devco. Among these was a vineyard, now known as the Cactus Lane Ranch, where table grapes and citrus grow today. Back in California, other key additions in the Tulare Lake Basin included Lake Bed Farms in 1965 and the Sandell properties in 1967. Then came 1969, a year marked by record rainfall and devastating floods across California, particularly in the Tulare Lake Basin. Many district levees failed under the pressure, but thanks to extraordinary efforts, the El Rico levee held strong. Boswell had to make some tough calls, removing the Tulare Lake Basin-area gins, evacuating the ranch office, and scaling back operations in Corcoran to higher ground. But by 1971, with the floodwaters

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