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Inside Western Growers
For 95 years, Western Growers (WG) has voraciously advocated on behalf the fresh produce industry and created a suite of resources to support specialty crop farmers. This includes offering health benefits for the agricultural industry, creating tailored risk management solutions, guiding farmers through the tangled web of H-2A, being a trusted resource during foodborne outbreaks ...
Inside Western Growers
The Western Growers Family of Companies is built on the strength of 445 dedicated employees providing expert advocacy and services across multiple business lines. To honor its employees who demonstrate “above and beyond” service, Western Growers recently launched an Employees’ Choice Award Program where employees select and honor fellow team members for their exemplary work and remarkable…
Welcome New Members
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Inside Western Growers
The Western Growers Family of Companies is built on the strength of 445 dedicated employees providing expert advocacy and services across multiple business lines. Whether it is securing healthcare benefits for agricultural businesses and their employees or advocating for growers and shippers in the produce industry, WG employees are fully committed to helping ensure the ...
Creating Value in Agtech: The Role of Intellectual Property
By Rudolph P. Darken and Nelson T. Rivera Agtech entrepreneurs have a lot in common with the growers they serve. Just as a grower plants, nurtures, and harvests products for their market, the agricultural technology (agtech) entrepreneur takes an idea, grows it into tangible goods and services, developing products for their market. All agtech ...
Countering the Continued Vilification of Crop Protection
By Jonathan Saragen The issue of pesticide safety continues to be demonized and is frequently raised before the court of law, but it’s in the court of public opinion where we should focus our countering efforts. As we all know, crop protection technologies truly aid in providing a steady, nutritious diet to families across ...
Western Growers Member Directory of Attorneys and Law Firms
Since Western Growers began more than 90 years ago, attorneys specializing in agricultural issues has been part of the association’s landscape. Staff attorneys have long been an integral part of the organization reaching a peak during the 1970s when unionization was a daily concern. Today, Western Growers’ legal staff has a significant presence and gets ...
Fed Raises Interest Rates Again; Caution Advised
In the second week of December 2017, Federal Reserve officials decided to raise interest rates. The Fed funds rate was raised from 1.25 percent to 1.50 percent, and along with this change, officials raised guidance on GDP growth to 2.5 percent, up from 2.1 percent forecasted in the September Fed meeting. Along with this revised ...
Western Growers Member Directory of Attorneys and Law Firms
In the 1970s, Western Growers had about a dozen attorneys on staff mostly handling labor law. Today, agricultural lawyers have gone well beyond labor law and specialize in a wide variety of business decisions from wage & hour concerns to water law and even to issues surrounding cannabis production. Currently there are dozens of law ...
Financial Literacy: Are you prepared for retirement?
By Chris Oerman With low unemployment rates and all-time stock market highs, Americans have many reasons to feel confident in their personal finances. However, according to a recent survey from Financial Engines, America’s largest independent investment advisor, a majority of Americans lack the basic financial knowledge they need to properly prepare for retirement. A ...
Western Growers University: Employee Handbook and Management Essentials Multi-Workshop
The Foundations of Management Workshop is designed to prepare new and current supervisor and manager with essential tools to better perform in their role more efficiently and effectively. In this workshop, participants will learn: 1.What is management, its function and the various roles; and know how to: Improve management efficiencies Help decline…
WGIS Hires Duvall
Western Growers has hired David Duvall, who will join the insurance services team as program development director. In this role, Duvall will be responsible for developing association-based property and casualty solutions for our members. “We are thrilled to bring someone of David’s caliber to the Western Growers’ team,” said Jeff Gullickson, senior vice president of ...
Western Growers University: Leave Laws | Reasonable Accommodations | Interactive Process
Join us for a one-day workshop covering leave law mandates and disability accommodation in the workplace. This unique opportunity is a chance to build and refine human resource management skills around employee leaves laws and the employer’s duty to provide a discrimination free workplace. Those in attendance will first learn how to…
A Blast from the Past
from WG&S December 1999 What Does the Future Hold? (Editor’s Note: As 1999 and the 20th Century were coming to a close, WG&S asked several industry leaders to look down the road and predict the future. This is an abridged version of that article that appeared in the December 1999 edition of WG&S) WG&S: ...
Western Growers University: Everything DiSC: Productive Conflict
Harness the power of conflict by transforming destructive behavior into productive responses. Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict is a training and personalized learning experience that increases self-awareness around conflict behaviors and helps participants effectively respond to the uncomfortable and unavoidable challenges of workplace conflict. Rather than focus on a step-by-step process…
Western Growers University: Leave Laws | Reasonable Accommodations | Interactive Process
Join us for a one-day workshop covering leave law mandates and disability accommodation in the workplace. This unique opportunity is a chance to build and refine human resource management skills around employee leaves laws and the employer’s duty to provide a discrimination free workplace. Those in attendance will first learn how to navigate through the most common…
Western Growers University: Employee Handbook and Management Essentials Multi-Workshop
The Foundations of Management Workshop is designed to prepare new and current supervisor and manager with essential tools to better perform in their role more efficiently and effectively. In this workshop, participants will learn: What is management, its function and the various roles; and know how to: Improve management efficiencies Help decline legal…
Western Growers Science: Pre-Harvest Testing Webinar
On February 15, Western Growers is hosting a webinar to discuss data collection and analysis considerations to implement a pre-harvest product testing program for romaine lettuce. In July 2022, Western Growers submitted a final report to the California Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (CA LGMA) summarizing proposed revisions and comments on potential Pre-harvest Product Testing…
Western Growers University: Harassment Prevention Train-the-Trainer Workshop
California – Senate Bill (SB) 1343 amends the Fair Employment and Housing Act, requiring employers, with five or more employees, to provide sexual harassment and abusive conduct training. This four-hour train-the-trainer workshop is designed to equip qualified individuals with the tools needed to train managers and non-supervisory employees within their organization on all…
AgTechX Ed | Developing the Next Generation of Tech-Savvy Ag Workers
The Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, California Department of Food and Agriculture and Woodland Community College have partnered to host AgTechX Ed – a half-day event dedicated to developing the next generation of tech-savvy agricultural workers. The AgTechX Ed Summit at Woodland Community College will be comprised of 3 panels, with several keynote addresses, covering…