E: [email protected]/P: 949.885.4778 EXT 4778 Michelle Rivera serves as the Communications Manager for Western Growers, where she is responsible for ensuring effective internal and external communications for Western Growers members, industry partners and consumers across all platforms. Michelle has more than 15 years of marketing and communications experience in various industries, including adtech, consumer products […]
After 17 successful years of working for NASA as a project manager and systems engineer, Neill Callis ended up taking his career to the unlikeliest of places—agriculture. How on earth does that happen, one has to ask? It wasn’t exactly rocket science, according to Callis. All puns aside, Callis explained that both jobs, while presenting different buckets of challenges, require a similar set…
On Thursday, Dec. 28, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) issued a notice that it will not enforce its Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation until the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants a waiver applicable to those regulatory provisions or determines one is not necessary. Although the Advanced Clean Fleets regulation has been put on hold, CARB is urging “fleets to…
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is making available approximately $12 million in grant funding for Healthy Soils Program (HSP) Incentive Grants. The program’s objectives are “to increase statewide implementation of conservation management practices that improve soil health, sequester carbon and reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases,” according to a press release…
