Join Western Growers as we “Paint the Night in Paradise” at this year’s Party with the Partners reception. WG will be recognizing and thanking all of our great industry partners on Monday, November 11, 2019, at the Wailea Beach Resort Luau Gardens. This is a casual event filled with delicious culinary creations, live music and networking opportunities all within the beautiful backdrop of Maui

Industry Partners

• AerovVironment 
• Barkley Ag Enterprises LLC 
• Belli Architectural Group
• Blue Book Services       
• Denham Plastics              
• Grimmway    
• Holaday Seed Company   
• International Paper       
• JRG Attorneys at Law
• King City Nursery   
• Mixtec Group 
• OneAmerica
• Pacific Southwest Container 
• Pan American Insurance Services
• Progeny
• Progressive Packaging Group
• Smart Guided Systems LLC    
• Southern Valley Chemical Co
• Tuttle, Taylor, & Heron                 

EVENT DETAILS

“Paint the Night in Paradise” Party with the Partners

Date: Monday, November 11, 2019

Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Location: The Wailea Beach Resort –Luau Gardena

 (3700 Wailea Alanui Drive Wailea, Maui, Hawaii 96753-4000)

Don’t miss out on this premiere event. Click here to register!

This year’s scramble golf tournament is back with a “Teeing it Up in the Tropics” theme! The tournament begins at 8:00 am on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, at the Wailea Golf Club in Maui, Hawaii. Join us as Golf Chair Craig Reade emcees this event!

This year’s golf course is designed to be fun for any player. Referred to as a tropical playground, the Wailea Emerald Course is over 6,800 yards big with memorable holes including #6, a par 4 downhill dogleg, measuring 415 yards from the white tees. Hole #11 is the longest on the course, 535 yards from the white tees, and usually into the wind, making it tough to reach the green. One of the more unusual features of the Emerald Course is the double green shared by holes #10 and #17. The green borders a 2.7 million gallon brackish water lake and is one of the most picturesque spots on the course!

Register today to reserve your spot!

EVENT INFO

“Teeing it Up in the Tropics” Western Growers Golf Tournament

Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Time: 8:00 a.m. (Shotgun Start)

Location: The Wailea Golf Club, Maui

Full Price (Golf Tournament w/clubs and lunch): $275.00

Register: Click Here

For questions about the golf tournament, contact Kim Sherman at (949) 885-2265.

For questions about the Annual Meeting, please contact Cheryl Wood at (949) 885-4798.

As we reported here, the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and Wage and Hour Division posted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to solicit public comment on proposed changes to improve the H-2A temporary agricultural labor certification program for the first time since 2010.

In comments submitted by Western Growers, the Grower-Shipper Association of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, and Ventura County Agricultural Association, on September 24, 2019, the associations lauded DOL’s efforts to streamline and modernize the H-2A program, supporting specific proposed rule changes that will reduce unnecessary cost, inefficiency and frustration that now is part of the program.  The comment letter also objects to provisions that are inconsistent with the Administration’s stated intent to improve the program.

A copy of the complete Comment letter can be found here.