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WATER RIGHTS? Is Change Inevitable?
For 150 years, water right holders in California have been king. Riparian holders (those adjacent to natural waterways) and Pre-1914 appropriative right holders (those not on waterways, but who have rights to acquire water from waterways and pipe it for use) are considered senior. Depending on which right is held, right holders are entitled to ...
Legislator Profile California U.S. Rep Tony Cardenas represents the 29th Congressional District, the San Fernando Valley
Rep. Cardenas was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012 and re-elected in 2014. He served three terms in the California State Assembly and also was elected to the Los Angeles City Council You represent California’s 29th Congressional. What areas does that cover? My district covers a range of about 180 square miles ...
FOOD WASTE: Firm Pioneers Use for Farm & Environment Benefit
While working on Wall Street, Dan Morash, who studied organic chemistry at Yale and is a Dartmouth M.B.A. graduate, spent a lot of time looking at the adaptive reuse of waste. The global head of energy and infrastructure for CIT was responsible for evaluating the financial and risk characteristics of various waste technologies for his ...
GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT Implementing 2014 Plan is Well Underway
The Brown Administration and local water and irrigation districts are well into the process of implementing the 2014 groundwater management legislation. With mandated deadlines looming, members who depend on groundwater need to get involved at the local level to provide input on the best way for your local groundwater management agency to attain sustainability in ...
INTERNATIONAL TRADE: WG Launches Webpage to Monitor Issues & Opportunities
In response to quickly expanding activity in the international trade arena, last month Western Growers launched a webpage dedicated to that sector. Western Growers’ members in California, Arizona and Colorado not only feed U.S. consumers, but they also feed the world. Many members now do business globally, exporting specialty crop products to a variety of ...
AMERICA’S VETERANS: Moving from Battlefields to Farming Fields
It may not seem obvious, but the military and agriculture have a common bond. The connection is based in the rural nature that is part of each. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there were approximately 22 million veterans in the United States in 2014 and more than five million of them lived ...
AGRALOGICS: Turning Available Data into Accessible Insights
(Editor’s Note: Agralogics was the “Judge’s Choice” winner during the Innovation Arena II at Western Growers 91st Annual Meeting in Kauai this past November.) Though he grew up on a farm in the Punjab region in northern India, Sumer Johal, the CEO and founder of Agralogics, didn’t “connect the dots” between the role of information ...
A Home-Grown Legislator
Assemblyman Vince Fong representing California 34th which includes most of Bakersfield (Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been paraphrased for clarity and brevity.) Your official bio says that you “wanted to positively affect the region you have always called home.” Where were you born and where were you raised? I am proud to say I ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE: Arizona Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Yee Representing Arizona’s 20th Legislative District
You were born and raised in Arizona. Tell us a little bit about how you got to be where you are now. I was born and raised in Phoenix, the same legislative district I now represent, which is northwest Phoenix and parts of Glendale. I guess you can say I am “homegrown.” I am the ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE: Assemblyman Devon Mathis Representing California’s 26th Assembly District encompassing Tulare, Inyo and parts of Kern counties
You were born and raised in the California’s Central Valley. Tell us a little bit about your family and your life growing up. I was born in Porterville into the Jarvis family. The family had agriculture roots in California extending back at least four generations. Growing up we mostly had animals on our farm including ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE Arizona Representative DAVID COOK representing House District 8 covering Pinal and Gila Counties
You were born and raised in Oklahoma, but you have lived in Arizona most of your life. Tell us a little bit about how you ended up in Arizona and what it means to be an Arizonan. I am a Vietnam-era baby and like many other marriages that had a husband who served in the ...
LEGISLATOR PROFILE: Senator JEFF STONE — Represents California 28th District which lies entirely in Riverside County
This January, the California Legislature will begin the second year of its 2017-2018 session. The first session, which adjourned in September, was one of the most colorful and contentious in recent memory. Marked by bitter, often personal, interparty and intraparty attacks, the session’s animosity was spawned by two key factors: a Democrat supermajority in both ...
Former WG Board Member Joseph Tomasello Passes Away at 81
Joseph J. Tomasello, a former Western Growers’ Board Director, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, September 15, 2017, at the age of 81. Joe also served on the board of the Growers Shipper Association, serving as the organization’s president from 1972-1973. According to his obituary, Joe was born on Dec. 8, 1935 in Watsonville, to Mary ...
Shippers Encouraged to Be Diligent on Sales to New Accounts in Eastern Canada
Western Growers has learned that a relatively new company in eastern Canada may have made recent produce purchases, but there now seems to be conflicting reports of the timeliness of ongoing payments for those purchases. Reports also indicate that the company’s initial monetary net worth, reported by the Red Book, has now been changed. As always, ...
USCIS Releases Revised Form I-9
On July 17, 2017, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. Employers may now use the new form or continue using the prior Form I-9 with a revision date of 11/14/16 N through September 17, 2017. However, the new form with a revision date of 07/17/17 ...
Ducey and Arizona Legislative Leaders Meet with Nassif and WG Board Members
This week, members of the Western Growers Executive Committee joined WG President and CEO Tom Nassif and other Arizona board members for our annual Arizona Leadership meetings. During the course of their visit, the WG contingent met with Governor Doug Ducey, House Speaker JD Mesnard, Senate President Steve Yarbrough, Director of the Department of Water ...
Former RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson Slated to be 91st Annual Meeting PAC Luncheon Speaker
Western Growers is proud to announce that former ambassador, presidential cabinet member and politician, Jim Nicholson, will be our 91st Annual Meeting PAC Lunch speaker being held at the Grand Hyatt in Kauai on Monday, November 7. Nicholson will make the end of an exciting presidential campaign season even more interesting as he provides attendees ...
Welcome New Board Members
The Western Growers Board of Directors has approved the appointments of three new members to join the 42 other sitting directors. The new Directors are: Lorri Koster, Chairman/CEO, Mann Packing Company Inc., Salinas, CA Tom Mulholland, Owner, Mulholland Citrus, Orange Cove, CA Rob Yraceburu, President, Wonderful Orchards, Shafter, CA The Association is grateful for these ...
Western Growers Welcomes 39 New Members
We would like to recognize and thank our 39 new members for joining the Western Growers’ family. Your patronage and support is greatly appreciated. We look forward to working with you and your employees in 2016 and beyond. REGULAR MEMBERS Avocado Resources Corporation Garry Richardson Farms G & M Farms Inc. GFO LLC, Griffith Bros ...
What Annual Meeting Workshops Do You Want to See? Take our Member Survey
It’s mid-May and that means Western Growers’ staff is heavily into planning our 91st Annual Meeting being held November 6th – 9th in Hawaii at the Grand Hyatt Kauai. One thing has become obvious during the planning process — there’s lots to talk about! So far, we’ve collected a number of possible workshop topics. In ...