Eye-in-the-sky to pie-in-the-sky technology was front and center at The Forbes AgTech Summit, held in Salinas, CA, in early July with Western Growers as a strategic partner. The summit was part of Forbes’ Reinventing America series and was held in partnership with SVG Partners and Thrive Accelerator, which is a highly selective mentorship and investment ...
Two innovative companies—both using byproducts from fresh fruits and vegetables—received the top two Thrive Accelerator awards at The AgTech Summit held in Salinas in July. Nuritas was the winner of the top award for the development of a process that extracts nutrients from plant and food products at the molecular level. Nora Khaladi, who is ...
The building of the Central Valley Project in the early 1960s was the genesis of the current Woolf Farming and Processing firm in Fresno, CA. Stuart Woolf, CEO and president, and a member of the Western Growers board of directors, said the building of that project and the use of the water came with restrictions ...
Within two decades there will not be a single human harvesting fruits and vegetables in this country. That provocative statement is the work of David Evans, formerly the chief futurist at Cisco who is now working on technology to connect all the machines in your home. Wouldn’t it be great, he said, if when you ...
The first lawyers specializing in the fresh produce industry tended to practice ag labor law, as articulated by Western Growers CEO Tom Nassif in his President’s Notes column on page 4 of this issue. Ag labor law was heady stuff in the 1960s and ‘70s when many young lawyers took their newly-minted licenses to practice ...
(Editor’s Note: The questions and answers have been edited and paraphrased for clarity and brevity.) Senator Cory Gardner grew up in “the other” Yuma, a small town on the Eastern Plains of Colorado. He began serving in the Colorado House of Representatives in 2005. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in ...
With 9 percent more participants and the data becoming more robust, the Western Growers HR Practices and Compensation Surveys are a must-have for both large and small companies doing business in the fresh produce industry. Karen Timmins, WG senior vice president of human resources, said that with 53 job titles defined, classified and analyzed from ...