Sure, the drought is a huge issue. But even if we get enough water to grow all the acres we want, we still won’t have the labor to harvest all those crops. That’s the view of Vic Smith of JV Smith Companies, who completed his one-year term as chairman of the board of Western Growers ...
The future was on the minds of two keynote speakers who presented some sobering and fantastic predictions about the future during the Western Growers Annual Meeting in San Diego in November. Provocatively, former chief futurist for the technology firm Cisco, Dave Evans, current founder and CEO of Stringify, said many people think that the first ...
Two firms, both advancing crop information garnered from eye-in-the-sky technology, were the winners during the Western Growers Innovation Arena Workshop held during the Annual Meeting in San Diego in November. The workshop session featured seven companies, most of which were start-ups, making a pitch to a panel of judges and the audience about what each ...
As Western Growers convened its 90th Annual Meeting in San Diego in November, it once again lamented the lack of progress on immigration reform that has occurred since its previous meeting a year earlier. And no optimism could be found that the picture will be any different one year hence. On the other hand, the ...
Larry Cox of Lawrence Cox Ranches, Brawley, CA, was elected chairman of the board of Western Growers at its Annual Meeting in San Diego in November. Cox, who served as senior vice chair this year, took the traditional path of rising through the officer slots to his current position. Serving as his senior vice chair ...