Ann Donahue serves as Director, Communications for Western Growers, where she is responsible for external communication efforts and publicizing the Association’s executives, initiatives, and members across all media platforms. Ann spent more than 20 years as an editor and reporter covering entertainment journalism, with bylines at publications including Variety, the L.A. Times, Billboard, IndieWire, and […]
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 23, 2022) – Western Growers released a new video today that calls on the U.S. Senate to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act to ease the industry’s labor shortage and, in turn, help lower the burden of food prices on consumers. The current broken immigration system fails to provide the workers the ...
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 23, 2022) – Western Growers released a new video today that calls on the U.S. Senate to pass the Farm Workforce Modernization Act to ease the industry’s labor shortage and, in turn, help lower the burden of food prices on consumers. The current broken immigration system fails to provide the workers the ...
Admiral William H. McRaven, a retired U.S. Navy Four-Star admiral, will give the keynote on Nov. 4, 2022 at the 96th Western Growers Annual Meeting at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. During his time in the military, McRaven commanded special operations forces at every level, eventually taking charge of the U.S. Special Operations Command. ...
The July/August issue of Western Grower & Shipper Magazine now can be read online! Among the articles in the current issue: President’s Notes: A Sharper Focus on American Food and Farm Policy WG Women Reaches Membership Milestone The Promise of Agtech Agtech is Already Here Innovation: More Talk Between Startups and Growers Needed: Tech Should ...
Jeff Morrison, the Director of Innovation and New Technology at Grimmway Farms, joins the podcast to discuss how he uses his interest in the business side of agriculture to dictate the choices his company makes on the technology side. For Morrison, solving the puzzle of how best to use agtech to make a return on ...
Join an Aug. 25, 2022 webinar at 10 a.m. CT as Tier One suppliers get a walkthrough of how the SISC Calculator can be used to work with growers to gather metric results, view aggregate results in a variety of reporting formats, send anonymized results back to growers, and report aggregate results to THESIS. Speakers ...
What do you do when you can’t afford to make a mistake – but at the same time, you know you can’t get risk to zero? In advance of the AgTechX Food Safety event on Aug. 18 at Reedley College, En Solucion CEO and Founder Alex Athey joins the podcast to discuss the potential of ...
The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture is offering another installment – also known as a phase – to assist commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2020 and 2021. More than 18,000 producers will soon receive new or updated pre-filled disaster applications to offset eligible crop losses. FSA will begin ...
Peter Wren-Hilton, the Founder of Wharf42 Limited and the mastermind behind the upcoming 2035 Agri-Food-Tech Oceania Summit, joins the podcast to discuss how New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands are responding to the threat of climate change. “Climate change is real, it’s happening, and it’s happening much faster than we thought,” he says. One ...
Super Diamond, a tribute band that honors the much-loved international pop icon Neil Diamond, will perform after the Award of Honor Dinner Gala at the 2022 Western Growers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. The event will take place at The Venetian Resort from Nov. 2-5, 2022. Super Diamond will perform timeless classics including “Sweet Caroline,” “America,” ...
Steve Taylor, the innovator who helped develop the packaged salad industry during his tenure at Fresh Express, passed away on Aug. 21, 2022 at the age of 67. Taylor served on the Western Growers Board of Directors from 1993-1996. According to the Monterey Herald, Taylor became chairman and CEO of Fresh Express in 1993 after his father died ...
The Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology held its first Resident Programming event of the season on Aug. 24 with a virtual information session entitled “Ag in the Desert.” Grower guests at the event represented the three main desert growing regions: Matt Maguire, Chief Agricultural Officer of J.V. Smith in Yuma, Ariz.; Scott Howington, Owner ...
From watermelon to stone fruit to table grapes, Sun World CEO David Marguleas has decades of experience in bringing vibrant new products to the consumer market. He visits the podcast this week to talk about how his company has made critical new hires and brought breeding in-house to stay at the forefront of molecular technologies. ...
The most recent issue of the International Association for Food Protection’s journal “Food Protection Trends” is now available online, and features a peer-reviewed article, “Environmental Risk Factors in the Human Pathogen Transmission Pathways between Animal Operations and Produce Crops” that was co-written by two Western Growers Science executives. The abstract of the article reads:…
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 8, 2022) – In response to the inclusion of $4 billion in drought-relief funding for the Colorado River Basin in the Senate spending bill, Western Growers President & CEO Dave Puglia issued the following statement: “We appreciate the determination of Senator Kyrsten Sinema and her colleagues to secure substantial new funding for ...
IRVINE, Calif. (Aug. 1, 2022) – Pinnacle Claims Management, Inc., part of the Western Growers Family of Companies (WGFC), has announced it will facilitate patient care as a managing services organization at the Cedar Health and Wellness Center located in Santa Maria, California. This comes after Pinnacle announced it was taking over health care delivery and ...
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 11, 2022) – In response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Water Supply Strategy that was announced today, Western Growers President & CEO Dave Puglia issued the following statement: “We applaud Governor Newsom’s bold and comprehensive water infrastructure and management strategy. Our farms are in distress due to water insecurity, increasingly placing millions…
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 29, 2022) – In a letter sent to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, a coalition of agricultural organizations offered their support, assistance and counsel for the immediate implementation of drought funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. Key coalition principles include: The…
The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance (SCFBA), a national coalition of more than 200 specialty crop organizations representing growers of fruits, vegetables, dried fruit, tree nuts, nursery plants and other products, has released its statement of principles for consideration of the 2023 Farm Bill. The SCFBA was established to advocate for broad-based Farm Bill policy ...
IRVINE, CALIF. (Aug. 8, 2022) – The Western Growers Family of Companies is mourning the passing of Hank Giclas. Dave Puglia, President and CEO, made this statement: “Hank Giclas dedicated himself, totally and fully, in service to the people of the fresh produce industry. His career was an unabashed love affair with agriculture, second only ...
