As the California Legislature approaches Summer Recess, discussions are heating up between legislators and the governor regarding extension of the state’s cap and trade program beyond 2020. The existing cap and trade system was designed and implemented as a market mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in accordance with AB 32, passed in 2006. AB ...
On Tuesday, July 25, TracMap will detail how its Spray and Harvest Management System can help growers reduce costs and improve yields across a wide range of specialty crops. TracMap offers a complete precision guidance system for ground applications to improve how crops receive pesticides. The technology works through a combination of a cloud-based job ...
The Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology (WGCIT) officially boasts 43 start-up companies who are working to develop and enhance technological solutions to ag’s biggest issues. Most of the newest startups to the Center have come as a result of a $30,000 grant from Wells Fargo, awarded at the Forbes AgTech Summit in 2016. ...
Yesterday, California lawmakers approved the extension of the cap-and-trade program to 2030. Assembly Bill 398 now heads to Governor Brown’s desk for signing. California’s cap-and-trade program was originally established in 2006 with AB 32, which required a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Last year another bill, SB 32, was ...
On Tuesday, July 25, TracMap will detail how its Spray and Harvest Management System can help growers reduce costs and improve yields across a wide range of specialty crops. TracMap offers a complete precision guidance system for ground applications to improve how crops receive pesticides. The technology works through a combination of a cloud-based job ...
Western Growers will honor David Gill as one of the fresh produce industry’s most distinguished pioneers, when he is presented with the 2017 Award of Honor during Western Growers 92nd Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gill’s achievements and service to the industry will be recognized at the Chairman’s Reception and Award Dinner at the ...
On Tuesday, July 25, TracMap will detail how its Spray and Harvest Management System can help growers reduce costs and improve yields across a wide range of specialty crops. TracMap offers a complete precision guidance system for ground applications to improve how crops receive pesticides. The technology works through a combination of a cloud-based job ...
On August 8, Western Growers and the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture will host “Soil Genetic Testing to Assess Fusarium Pressure,” a seminar where growers can learn how to utilize gene sequencing tools to maximize yield. Dr. Poornima Parameswaran, co-founder of Trace Genomics, will lead an informative seminar that will highlight gene sequencing ...
Western Growers has collaborated with the California Community College’s Agriculture, Water and Environmental Technologies (AWET) Program to deliver the Agricultural Workforce Development Survey to Western Growers members in San Benito, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and San Mateo. The goal is to identify current workforce training gaps in the agricultural sector to develop pertinent training…
On July 25, 2017, the Fair Employment Housing Council (FEHC) of the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH) announced that it is proposing emergency regulations clarifying that the gender-neutral signage law does not apply to agriculture field sanitation units. The proposed emergency regulation is designed to eliminate the conflict between DFEH rules (requiring ...
It’s 3 p.m. and Jeffrey Orrey, CEO of GeoVisual Analytics, is pulling up a computer screen full of red, yellow and blue pictures to analyze the imagery collected from the fields earlier that morning. “We routinely monitor the fields using airplanes, drones and mobile phones to help farmers reduce production uncertainties and increase profits,” said ...
On any given day, the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology (WGCIT) is buzzing with energy from entrepreneurs who are all collaborating on innovative ideas and technologies to help solve agriculture’s biggest challenges. You’ll see the young engineers of HeavyConnect working side by side in the collaborative cubicles, coding new software that will eliminate ...
For the past three years, the Forbes AgTech Summit has been an impressive showcase of the latest and greatest in agtech innovation from around the globe. This year, the jam-packed event went from impressive to spectacular. More than 600 people gathered in the heart of downtown Salinas, California on June 27–28, 2017, to hear from ...
A large “BOOM” echoes through the remote Salinas foothills in late October 1998. In the distance, there is a downed helicopter with a lone pilot, David Gill, crawling out of the wreckage. His body is nearly broken, but his spirit is more determined than ever. Knowing that he is badly injured, Gill has to find ...
The Western Growers’ Golf Tournament is back—and this time, it will be held at the Revere Golf Club, designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash, just minutes from the Las Vegas Strip. The 2017 “Tee it High, Let it Fly” Golf Tournament will be held during the WG Annual Meeting, on Wednesday, November 1 at ...
The brightest minds in agriculture are coming together for Western Growers’ 92nd Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 29 – November 1, 2017. This year’s event includes dynamic and engaging sessions across a wide range of topics impacting agriculture. Breakout session will highlight timely topics such as: Healthcare: guidance on providing effective and ...