During the course of The AgTech Summit, two Western Growers members were honored with awards from Forbes. Salinas Mayor Joe Gunter was on hand to present Bruce Taylor, founder and CEO of Taylor Farms, with the Forbes Impact Award in Leadership. Gunter described Taylor’s passionate representation of the produce industry and faithful stewardship of the ...
In January, amid a case docket otherwise dominated by electronics and pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the group of D.C.-based justices whose jurisdiction over patent matters is second only to the Supreme Court, issued a decision concerning a seemingly more elemental technology: grapes. The decision in Delano Farms Co. v. ...
Industry veteran Jeffrey Gullickson was hired as the new leader of Western Growers Insurance Services (WGIS) on July 1 when he was named senior vice president of the full-service, bilingual agency which serves the insurance needs of farmers and related businesses in California, Arizona and Colorado. As the leader of WGIS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...