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 […]
Verdant Robotics Co-Founders CEO Gabe Sibley and COO Curtis Garner return to Voices of the Valley to continue their discussion on how they make sure their company focuses on creating agricultural solutions – instead of just showing off shiny robots. The duo envision a future where farmers and technologists work in tandem to turn fieldworkers ...
The May/June 2022 issue of Western Grower & Shipper magazine is now available in print and digital formats. Current articles include: President’s Notes: Dewatering California’s Central Valley… Don’t Laugh; They’re Serious Director Profile: Mike Way Forges Own Path to Produce How to Get the Most Out of a WG Membership WG Women Ambassador: Heather Mulholland, ...
The next stop in the AgTechX Ed series of events co-hosted by Western Growers and the California Department of Food and Agriculture is open for registration. The half-day AgTechX Ed Summit at Woodland Community College on June 1 will be comprised of three panels, in addition to several keynote addresses, covering topics including: industry issues ...
In the digital age, information is power – but data in a silo can’t reach its full potential to create prosperity. Enter Farmer’s Business Network, a farmer-driven information source that provides agronomic precision data to all its members. “We wanted to level the playing field for farmers,” says Amol Deshpande, FBN’s CEO and Co-Founder. With ...
Cal/OSHA is reminding all employers with outdoor workers to take the necessary precautions to prevent heat illness, as high temperatures are expected throughout the state this week. The law requires employers to provide outdoor workers fresh water, access to shade at 80 degrees and whenever requested by a worker and cool-down rest breaks in addition ...
The Western Growers Science team just released a pair of documents providing guidance on pre-harvest product testing sampling plans and how to utilize specific tools during root cause analysis (RCA) investigations. The first document titled “Considerations and Resources for Conducting an Environmental Investigation During an On-Farm RCA”, provides considerations for the benefits, challenges…
IRVINE, CALIF. (May 3, 2022) – The past month’s episodes of Voices of the Valley, the podcast hosted by Dennis Donohue, the Executive Director of Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, and Candace Wilson, Regional Director at Farmers Business Network, feature four agricultural leaders discussing cybersecurity, climate change and the ways to…
Heather Mulholland is a fourth-generation citrus grower in Orange Cove, Calif., where she works alongside her family as COO at Mulholland Citrus. Farming is something she has been drawn to since she was a child—her sixth grade science project was on beneficial insects—and after attaining a bachelor’s degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and ...
For Wish Farms, a donation to World Central Kitchen for the non-profit’s work in Ukraine was about more than wanting to help a country in turmoil. It was personal. Media coverage of war zones has always been a harrowing affair—for centuries, journalists put their lives on the line alongside soldiers in order to give readers, ...
Don Cameron, Vice President and General Manager of Terranova Ranch, joins the Voices of the Valley podcast to share his experiences with agtech start-ups looking to gain traction in California agriculture. “The ones that tend to come early and listen and hear what we’re saying are the ones that tend to be successful,” he says. ...
The Western Food Safety Conference was held May 4-5, 2022 at Hartnell College in Salinas, Calif. This year’s edition of the conference had the theme “The Culture of Food Safety,” and WG members and executives shared their first-hand learnings based on their years of experience in the industry. Sonia Salas, AVP of Science at Western ...
Verdant Robotics Co-Founders CEO Gabe Sibley and COO Curtis Garner join Voices of the Valley to discuss the power that digitized precision farming gives to the industry. Verdant Robotics wasn’t “a solution looking for a problem,” Gabe says; instead, the multi-action robot that provides both data analytics and crop applications is the result of a ...
