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 […]
Dr. David Acheson, President and CEO of The Acheson Group and former Chief Medical Officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, will deliver a virtual keynote at AgTechX Food Safety event on Feb. 2, 2022 in Yuma, Ariz. Acheson graduated from the University of London Medical School ...
California employers must post their 2021 annual summary of work-related injuries and illnesses – including those related to COVID-19 – in a visible and easily accessible area by February 1, 2022, per Cal/OSHA. The Form 300A summary must be posted each year from February 1 through April 30. To be recordable, an illness must be ...
IRVINE, CALIF. (January 5, 2022) – In the most recent episode of Voices of the Valley, the podcast hosted by Dennis Donohue, the Director of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, and Candace Wilson, CEO of GreenVenus, CDFA Secretary Karen Ross discusses the meaningful opportunities 2022 offers for the agriculture industry in the state.…
IRVINE, CALIF. (January 11, 2022) – Western Growers received a $750,000 grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2021 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (HR 133) to develop and implement a curriculum to provide California college students with best-in-class agtech training. Besides the 2,750 students that will be assisted by the program, the grant will ...
IRVINE, CALIF. (January 12, 2022) – In the most recent episode of Voices of the Valley, the podcast hosted by Dennis Donohue, the Director of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, and Candace Wilson, CEO of GreenVenus, Turlock Fruit Company General Manager Neill Callis talks about the intersection of space tech and agtech. Prior to farming,…
IRVINE, CALIF. (January 26, 2022) – In the most recent episode of Voices of the Valley, the podcast hosted by Dennis Donohue, the Director of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, and Candace Wilson, CEO of GreenVenus, entrepreneur Pam Marrone, founder of Marrone Bio Innovations, discusses why everyone wants to go into biologicals these days for pest…
By Ann Donahue For Hernan Hernandez, everything begins and ends with family. As the Executive Director of the California Farmworker Foundation, he understands that family comes in two forms: the one you’re born into, and the one you choose. “I grew up in a town called Richgrove, California, population 3,000,” he said. “I grew up ...
By Ann Donahue John D’Arrigo Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Arizona CEO and Chairman of the Board for D’Arrigo California John D’Arrigo recently received the prestigious Eugene G. Sander Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Arizona for his leadership and service to the agricultural community and U of A’s Yuma Center ...
By Ann Donahue There is—perpetually, it seems—an extensive menu of issues that face the agriculture industry. There are problems that can be ordered up at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even for a midnight snack when sleep doesn’t come easy: water, labor, regulations, immigration, pesticides, shipping, transportation, COVID. And then maybe you can have something like ...
