It’s 5:00 am on August 18, 1962, and the City of Los Banos is already buzzing with excitement in anticipation of President John F. Kennedy’s visit to their little community for the groundbreaking ceremony of the San Luis Dam. Nine-year-old Stephen Patricio is getting ready to hop on his bicycle to make the 15-mile trek ...
Growers Ice Salinas, California Member Since 1978 It is hard to believe that any technology applicable in 1936 is still viable today, but getting the field heat out of produce by topping it with ice is still in vogue. Growers Ice is offering the same service concept today that fueled its establishment more than ...
AgroThrive Inc., a firm offering organic fertilizers to growers, is built on the premise that all organic wastes can be converted to safe and nutritious organic fertilizers. Founder and CEO Dragan Macura, who is a food scientist by training, has developed a 21-day process to turn virtually any waste into a pathogen-free, organic-certified liquid fertilizer ...
The new rules governing the use of electronic logging devices (ELD) and hours of service in the world of produce trucking have eliminated many of the issues concerning the mandated use of ELD and basically given truckers back the time the use of an ELD would have taken from them. In a nutshell, produce truckers—and ...
Ernie Bontadelli passed away peacefully at his home Friday, June 22, 2018, at the age of 92. He and his brother Charles were pioneers in the Brussels sprout industry on California’s central coast. Ernest Bontadelli was born in La Selva Beach, CA, on September 30, 1925. He continued to reside in that Santa Cruz County ...